Last week I received my first writing review with some serious professional clout. As you know if you’ve been following this blog, I was a quarter-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards this year for my novel Moonlight and Oranges, which … Continue reading
A synopsis distills the key messages, themes, and direction of a story. Have you ever tried to condense the plot of a novel into one page? How about one or two sentences? It’s hard. Really hard. The first time I … Continue reading
Book Launch. Def. a very personal and monumental event in which a writer gets something of his/her own published and then invites everyone he/she knows to commemorate the occasion. I attended the book launch for the novel Blood, by Jack Remick last week. … Continue reading
Be impeccable in your word. This is the first of The Four Agreements. In the context of the book’s philosphy this is a determined truthfulness and also a dedicated integrity. If you say you will do something, it is tantamount that you … Continue reading