Category: How To and Tips
Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes, Oh My!
Metaphors, Analogies, and Similes, Oh My! We all have our personal reading preferences, whether we acknowledge them or not. Things that make us click “buy” on Amazon after checking out the “Look Inside” feature or buying a book from the local bookstore after reading the first few pages. Sometimes it’s simply a specific genre, sometimes […]
On Writing A Blissful Feast, my Culinary Adventures
A Blissful Feast, Culinary Adventures in Italy’s Piedmont, Maremma, and Le Marche Pegasus Books, NY Reflections on the writing process: “When I set out to write about my culinary adventures in Italy, I knew I would start in the Piedmont region in the northwest, home of my mother’s ancestors. From there I would more on […]
Nine Months of Covid – by Margo T Krasne
Margo Krasne knows what it’s like to feel voiceless and invisible. As an aging woman with chronic asthma, in 2020 she found she’d become a member of a club no one wants to join–“high risk for Covid-19”–and she was suddenly forced to watch the year unfold from inside the confines of her NYC apartment. A dynamo […]
Everyday Mindfulness: Excerpt
Melissa Steginus is a productivity and wellness specialist and author of the new book, Everyday Mindfulness: 108 Simple Practices to Empower Yourself and Transform Your Life (October 25, 2020; $14.99). Her motto is that “your time and energy are your most precious resources” and—through her books, courses, workshops, and coaching services—she helps people structure their […]
What I Wish I’d Known While Querying
Like many writers, my debut novel is not the first completed novel I’ve written. In fact, I secured representation with an agent for the second book project I queried. She called me on a bright December morning. I will never forget her voice on the other end of the phone: “I’m in love with this! […]
The Secret Life Of Sofonisba Anguissola—The Most Famous Woman You’ve Never Heard Of
New Novel by Melissa Muldoon—“The Secret Life of Sofonisba Anguissola—the most famous woman you’ve never heard of.” Writing in the time of Covid. Despite these uncertain times of Covid, writing a historical novel about Sofonisba Anguissola set in the sixteenth century has been a gratifying and fulfilling experience. It provided me with a much-needed outlet […]
Magic In Writing by Greta Kelly
So you want to write fantasy. You have your compelling and relatable main character, your wicked villain and a world full of magic that can do, well, everything. And then it hits you: if magic can solve any problem… why are there still problems? Don’t worry, this is an extremely common first-draft woe—and one that […]
How To Be A Writer
I realized recently that I’m not a writer. I’m actually a bunch of nervous squirrels in a trench coat. But that’s okay, because honestly, aren’t we all? I’m not ashamed to admit I don’t know what I’m doing most of the time, but I’m learning. I have a cozy mystery—KILLER CONTENT—due out from Berkley on […]
On Writing What You DON’T know
On Writing What You Don’t Know By Sarah Penner Of all the writing advice I’ve come across in recent years, here is the old adage I despise the most: write what you know. They tell us to “write what we know” for several reasons: the sense of authority that comes across on the page; the […]
Book Writing Tips for Aspiring Debut Authors
Book Writing Tips for Aspiring Debut Authors By Wendy Yorke Everyone’s story counts and can help other people, which is why we have been sharing stories since we existed on this planet. My mission is to help people to spread their messages out into the world through their books, fiction and non-fiction, to help other […]
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