Reviews are a funny thing. When you’re waiting to be published, published author friends warn you not to read them. With good reason, I’ve realized. A negative review has the power to make you doubt everything. When you encounter criticism, you can start to question your ability to string words into Read more…
Cellphone is one word now—at least according to the Associated Press. And since AP style is drilled into my head at the day job, one word it shall stay, even if it drives me up the wall. The AP also recently changed style on under way. After two decades of Read more…
I admit, I’ve been nervous about book reviews. Who wouldn’t be after reading the horror stories about authors who refuse to read their reviews … authors devastated by one-star—or, worse, no-star—reviews … Putting my books out there, in the world at large, wasn’t hard. I’ve wanted to be a writer, to Read more…
There’s no shortage of reading material on the ol’ information superhighway. Here are a few of the links I’m loving right now: — I wish I’d seen Nathan Bransford’s post on the art of being unsentimental about your characters months ago. Might have saved me from having to muse about being too Read more…