Facebook post written by Zibby Owens that's too good not to share:

I accidentally discovered a time-saving, brilliant, writing and wellness hack today. I woke up in desperate need of exercise (my body — oy!), but I’d told myself that the time was blocked off for novel writing. I even had it scheduled in my calendar. If I took half an hour to walk, I’d lose all that precious…

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An interviewer once asked Jess Lourey: "How did you come into writing?"

She replied: I received four hundred and twenty three rejections before I signed my first book contract. Not very good odds, but I'm running with them. It started when I was six. I wrote this Minnesota haiku for…

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I sunbathed topless.

I ate the local fish, eyeballs and all.

I ignored the looks of disdain as I sat in a seaside café with my laptop.

I asked directions in my high school French.

And I put rough drafts of my work in front of my mentor and held…

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For years people told me to start a newsletter. After all, I had written and published two books and had over 400 people on my email list. I thought periodically sending a book release announcement or information about an upcoming author event was enough.

Then I took a mastermind class…

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The Bear is the hot show that’s getting Hulu a ton of new subscribers. Deservedly so. Is it perfect? No, especially the first few episodes, but it hits its stride, and the season ends with great emotion as you cheer for these characters.

You can get a free month…

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Not that I need lessons on the basic structure of a novel but I was recently doing a search for posts on structure. I don't need lessons, really, I was just curious what I'd come up with.

Well, sometimes I need lessons.

When you're in the middle…

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Editor’s Note:
Annie McCormick is not a kid with a romantic idea of being a novelist. She’s old. Well, that was rude, but let’s just say she’ not young. She is, however, very serious about being a novelist and she’s changing her career path at this time in her…

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The Formula for Setting that Agents, Editors, and Readers Love

I like to think of the setting of a book as a character, one that puts the reader into the story and makes them feel as if they’re part of the adventure. Did you know that writing about and selecting…

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Of course that's not true - getting an agent is not easy and it's not fun, not by any stretch of the imagination. Wouldn't it be nice, though, if there were a magic formula?

Google how to get an agent and you'll find thousands of articles that will give…

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Funny is subjective. Some people like sarcastic humor (me), some like slapstick (definitely not me), some like subtle humor, some like it spelled out. You might find something hilarious and I might not even crack a smile, or vice versa.

Some people are naturally funny. You probably have friends who…

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