In only a week, I’ll be 60. That just can’t be right, can it? As I look back over a lifetime of writing — most of it unpublished and rightly […]
Writing Secondary Characters
Elizabeth Boyle’s webinar on Secondary Characters was quite informative. Here are some of her points. First, what do you need secondary characters for? Lesson or Role? Your secondary character will […]
What I’m Reading: Rescuing Samantha
If you like horse stories, you should try this one by Heidi Thomas. It’s the first in a series, so I’m looking forward to trying Book 2. Sam has a […]
Query Letter Elements
So what exactly should be in your query letter? In Angie Hodapp’s Query Letter Boot Camp, we talked about the three (or four) parts of a query letter: (Polite) Greeting: […]
Elements of a Solid Query Pitch
Here’s some more great information from the Women Writing the West Conference and the Query Letter Boot Camp. According to Angie Hodapp, there are six signal words you need to […]
Query Letter Tips
This is from our Query Letter Boot Camp by Angie Hodapp. Here are 8 Tips for writing a query letter: Shorter query letters tend to get better responses than long […]
Goodreads for Authors
This is something I’ve been doing the past couple of days, since we had a workshop on the subject at the Women Writing the West Conference. If you’ve published anything, […]
Women Writing the West Conference
Yesterday was the last day of the Women Writing the West Conference. This was a great little conference — lots to do and plenty of classes for every type of […]
Under Western Stars Paperback!
The anthology is out in paperback now — proceeds go to support the Western Fictioneers so we don’t have to pay so much for our conferences and such — we’ve […]
Women Writing the West
Next week is another writing conference — Women Writing the West’s Climbing Higher: Endless Vistas, Unlimited Vision. This looks like a very useful conference — not quite as much to […]