I was tagged by Luke Walker in his The Next Big Thing blog post chain. It's taken me a little while to respond, because well, I wasn...

So there's a lot of writing advice out there.  A lot of it's great.  Some of it stinks.  I've even thrown my two amateur cents i...

*** Warning: the following post contains a lot of gratuitous food porn! *** The other day I was perusing Twitter, trying valiantly not to g...

As you can see from snooping around this blog even a little, I'm not yet published.  I mean, I'm an author, but only because I say s...

It's that time of the year, when inspiration strikes and authors around the globe begin madly writing.   NaNoWriMo is an interesting an...

This interesting topic has come up again recently for me, and it's one that has seen quite a lot of heated debate since well, about as l...

First of all, there is no 'right' format for a manuscript.  Everyone says something a little different.  No one wants it exactly the...

Much has been said about submitting a manuscript to a literary agent or publisher, but I've seen less written about the timing of a subm...