I’m happy to announce my new book Writing the New Adult Novel: How to Write and Sell ‘New Adult’ Fiction, to be published by Writer’s Digest Books 2014. It’ll be a hands-on guide featuring essential information, steps, and techniques to guide writers in creating engaging stories featuring eighteen- to twenty-six-year-old protagonists against the backdrop of […]
Hanging with Graphic Novel and Comic Book Expert Danny Fingeroth
I sure get to hang with the most interesting folks. Today, comic book and graphic novel expert Danny Fingeroth visited DearEditor.com as my Guest Editor. Danny was a longtime writer and editor for Marvel Comics, best known for his work on Spider-Man. His books include Superman on the Couch, Disguised as Clark Kent, The Rough […]
How to Make Writing Hazardous to Your Health
Sit on an exercise ball as you type in order to work your core muscles? Surely they’re not serious. If they are, safety gear is a must. Trust me.
Move Over Tacos, We’ve Got Books!
Four writer friends and I gathered today at yummy (and healthy!) Seasons 52 in La Jolla, but our attention wasn’t on the awesome blackened mahi tacos the waiter set in front of us—it was on the gaggle of books these writers have just launched into the world. Amazing nonfiction writer Kathleen Krull has two new […]
Honored to Deliver Keynote at SCBWI 42nd Summer Conference
I’m honored to announce that I’ll be giving the “Market Report: An Up-to-the-Minute State of the Industry” keynote at the SCBWI 42nd Summer Conference in Los Angeles Aug 2 – 5. In fact, it’ll be a busy conference for me, as I’m also teaching the intensive “How to Build Your Own Teenager: Techniques for Writing […]
Revision Week Was a Hoot!
In all the busy-busy of the last few weeks, I’m only just now able to collect my thoughts on DearEditor.com’s 2013 Revision Week. My primary thought: Wow, that was a blast! I love getting a peek into the minds and processes of creative people, so being able to interview six authors about their revision process […]
What Souffles and Revisions Have in Common
I LOVE Revision Week. Today Edgar-nominated author Bruce Hale talks about the trickiness of knowing when you’re done revising: “When I can’t find anything else to tinker with, and I have that general feeling that if I mess with it much more, the entire souffle will collapse in a soggy heap — that’s when I […]
After 150 Books, Larry Knows Revision
I’m fascinated by how the creative process plays out, with a person following an idea through to final product—whether that product be a book or a sculpture or a piece of technology or whatever. It seems like magic to take a grain of an idea and render into some cohesive, tangible form . . . […]
Announcing DearEditor.com’s Revision Week 2013, March 24-30!
I’m getting excited! It’s almost time for DearEditor.com’s second annual Revision Week. March 24-30 I’ll be hosting six authors—who have published a combined 275 best-selling and award-winning books—for a week of revision tips, insights, and stories from the trenches at DearEditor.com. Who’s stopping by? Bestselling and award-winning authors Laura Griffin (romance novels), Matthew J. Kirby (YA […]
A New Look for my Website and Blog!
I’m proud to pull back the curtain today to reveal my website and blog’s new look. If you’ve visited my site before, you may have to click on the refresher icon at the top of your browser so that page will reload to reveal the new look. What you’ll find is a pretty new design, […]
Agent Sara Sciuto Talks Picture Book Dummies
One of the things I enjoy about my writers advice website DearEditor.com is bringing in brilliant publishing colleagues to answer reader questions as “Guest Editor.” Today’s guest editor is Sara Sciuto, an agent with Full Circle Literary. Sara represents children’s fiction (picture books, middle grade, and YA) and select adult nonfiction. A graduate of the […]
OnText Gives DearEditor.com the Thumbs Up
Ghostwriter Maryan Pelland posted a fab feature about my writers advice website DearEditor.com on her blog OnText. The feature, “Writing Children’s or Young Reader Books? Great Source of Publishing Help,” praised me as “a wealth of information for writers, authors, and ghostwriters to ask questions about the craft of writing or about the very confusing […]
Illustrator Stacy Innerst on the Risks of Illustration Notes
Having worked with picture book illustrators for many years now, I’ve come to respect the daylights out of their creative process. Each one reaches the end product—a beautiful picture book—differently, but they all start from the same first moment: an emotional and visual reaction while reading the text for the very first time. That’s where […]
Letters to Santa: My first picture book!
My first picture book has published! LETTERS TO SANTA celebrates the 100th anniversary of the USPS “Letters to Santa” program. I spotted the book on display at my post office yesterday! Letters to Santa is a great program, with USPS working with charities, companies, and individual citizens across the country in various ways to field […]
When to Put “And” in front of “Then”
I’m thrilled to bring editor extraordinaire Robin Cruise to DearEditor.com today as my Guest Editor. Robin gave me my first job in publishing and her creativity, industry wisdom, and business acumen have inspired me ever since. She’s spent her career behind the scenes as managing editor, deputy publisher, and then publisher, with both trade publishers […]
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