Are you a lover of the horror genre? Today’s featured debut author is Belinda Frisch who has woven a scary tale involving a Ouija board — that lone is enough to make me want to hide under the bed. :) Name: Belinda Frisch Name of book: Dead Spell Book genre: Horror Date published: March 2011 [...]
Archive for June, 2011
Writing Tip #37
Posted in Uncategorized, Writing Tips on June 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Don’t freak out. “Freaking out” is the one thing that jams the brakes on my writing ability. I’m not talking about pressure. Pressure, deadlines, ticking clocks, I can deal with. For me, I can get overwhelmed when suddenly too many things are heaped on me, like trying to write a coherent feature article while packing [...]
Making Lemonade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agent, Father's Day, lemonade, lemonade stand, Publishing, publsher on June 22, 2011 | 19 Comments »
My nine-year-old son decided to run his first lemonade stand on Sunday. He held his sign, “Lemonade: 25 cents” high in the air for every passing car, truck and pedestrian, with dollar signs in his eyes, hoping that maybe this person would stop, or this one, or maybe this one. Car after car drove by, [...]
‘The Killing’ Is Killing Me
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AMC, Anne Rice, Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, The Killing, The Witching Hour on June 20, 2011 | 9 Comments »
So I spend 13 weeks watching AMC’s The Killing, totally engrossed, trying to figure out who killed Rosie Larsen, thinking I was so smart one episode, and then thinking I was totally clueless the next. And last night, during the season finale, just when I thought I would finally find out who did it and [...]
Writing Tip #36
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged I'd Know You Anywhere, Laura Lippman, writing, writing tips on June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Just make stuff up. People always ask me where I get ideas for my fiction. And I usually just shrug my shoulders and say, “I don’t know. Things just come to me.” That’s partly true. I will be driving or showering or watching TV and suddenly have the urge to jot something down. But I [...]
Writing Tip #35
Posted in Writing Tips on June 12, 2011 | 3 Comments »
There’s nothing wrong with the word “said.” Yes, the word “said” appears a gazillion times in your manuscript, and at some point you’ll get the urge to change it to “replied” or “agreed” or “remarked” or “explained” or “related” — or the worst, “stated” — just to change things up, but you really don’t have [...]
Get the F–k to Work!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Adam Mansbach, Akashic Books, Children's literature, Go the F--k to Sleep, Literature, parenting, Publishing, writing on June 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
This week, I wrote a business profile for CNNMoney.com on Akashic Books and the mega-success of the company’s new “children’s” book, the runaway hit, Go the F–k to Sleep. The book has a great backstory: A guy, author Adam Mansbach, frustrated with not being able to get his daughter to sleep at bedtime, frustrated with [...]
Why I’m Not Self-Publishing ‘Baby Grand,’ And Why I Would
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Editing, Rachelle Gardner, Self-publishing, traditional publishing, Writing and Editing on June 8, 2011 | 15 Comments »
I am often asked why I don’t just self-publish Baby Grand. The short answer is because I have an agent. But there’s also a long answer too that’s a little more thoughtful and long-winded. It sounds a little something like this: I have writer-friends who roll their eyes indignantly at self-publishing, as if self-publishers are [...]
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