My favorite thing about winter is that I can keep a pot of water hot on the woodstove and make tea whenever I want to. Not long ago, I was in the Maine Mall and got sucked into a tea tasting event that the Teavana store was having. The teas were all terrific, but pricey. [...]
I’ve been working on a non-writing business plan since the end of last year. As I’ve been crunching numbers, making projections, envisioning the mature business and how to plant the seeds of the startup business, I began to realize that my writing business may have benefited from the same kind of careful consideration. I put [...]
Dean Wesley Smith has an interesting blog busting myths about agents that can damage a writer’s career. [Please note, if you read this blog, but not the comments, that Dean actually thinks it is advisable to have an agent to handle negotiations (he says this in earlier posts on writer-agent relationships). He just doesn't think [...]
Look what I got on Friday? Isn’t it pretty? It is for my budding new business venture. I made the mistake of migrating all my information at one time…and for eight hours was completely locked out of both my computers. Sometimes that’s a good thing, I must admit. I went shopping, cleaned the kitchen, read, [...]
Moonrat, over at Editorial Ass, has a post about editing an author who is tooooo attached to AAA writing (adverbs, adjectives, and alliteration). Note this is an author who is sold and has a story so wonderful that Moonrat would rather lose hair editing out the overwriting than to have passed on the project. I [...]
Every so often I get a wild hair. For example, when I was growing up, I would get a burning desire to put on a play, utilizing my three younger sisters as players/props. I would write the script (brilliant, of course, though sadly lost to posterity forever through the diligence of my clutter-busting mother). I [...]
When I fell in love with books, there were only two kinds: hardcover and paperback. No trade paperbacks, no e-books. Just paper and ink and words to suck me in and hold me fast until the last page. When I began to dream of seeing a book of mine publishing, that was still true. When [...]
Welcome to 2010. I hope it nestles in wonder and true beauty in among the real life stuff for us all. Enjoy! Kelly
