The good news for writers is that Amazon Kindle and similar platforms allow them to get their books directly to readers. No longer does a writer have to se...

One of the things I love about the month of December is the chance to see some of my favorite Christmas movies and specials. These are programs I've enjoye...

Nonfiction and editing are my bread and butter. They help pay rent on the apartment and keep the car insured. But I have been spending some more of my time ...

In case you've been living in a cave with no connection to the outside world, November is National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words o...

Naming your characters can be almost as hard as naming your kids–or so I've been told. I don't have kids. What I do have is experience gently rubbing my achi...

Stephen King's book On Writing has helped a generation of writers find ways to express their ideas. I loved it, and it's always one of the first books I reco...

I'm looking sadly at my Word folder labeled "Short Stories." Although fiction has always been my first love, I haven't touched that folder in so long that I...

One of the very first clients who hired me to edit her novel-length manuscript sent me an email before she forwarded her prose to me. "Be honest," she wrote...