How One Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
How a Critique of My Sex Scene Stopped Me
The sex scene this writer is referring to happens right before the climax, pardon the pun, of Deadly Little Secrets, a medical ...
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasies of ‘Bestselling’
Bestselling Author Joe Ide: Facts and Fantasy of ‘Bestselling’
L.A. author Joe Ide, frequent keynote speaker and workshop leader at the Southern California Writers Conference, is delighted with the success ...
The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness
The Writing Life, Mental Health and Mental Illness
Before I shifted careers, I was an RN, MSN and my specialty was psychiatric nursing. For two decades I practiced exclusively on psychiatric ...
Authors & Book Promo, 21st Century Style
Authors & Book Promo, 21st Century Style
WHO: Marla Miller, host of Authors & Book Promotion Interviews, 21st Century Style conducted on ZOOM
WHAT:
ZOOM Interviews with 21st century published authors from ...
Videoing on TikTok or Off, I’m In!
Videoing on TikTok or Off? I'm In!
Writers who have known me for years, know that I dig interviewing writers and have since I launched my first writerly focused program on ...
Nora Ephron’s ‘Everything Is Copy’ Inspired My Novel
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Nora Ephron's 'Everything Is Copy' Inspired My Novel
On the day of Taylor Swift's ‘Tortured Poets Department’ debut, I found this reel. Until I did, I did not know that like ...
HOOKING Is Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended ‘HOOKIE’
9/16/2022 SCWC, Query Letter Workshop w/Writersmama
HOOKING IS Hard: Your Query Letter Must Hook Your Intended HOOKIE!
(a.k.a agent or editor).
Crafting a hook-able query letter requires heavy lifting. Are you up ...
Not A Happy Ending: Common Story About Literary Agents
The Fate of 'Celebrity Chefs and Mentors: Women in Culinary Profession'
My celebrity chef project is officially shelved. I’ve spent two full years that included writing the twenty-nine page proposal and ...
Romanticism and the Writing Life
December 29, 2022
I know this mantra
We hear it from our elders who quote versions of it in workshops they teach and craft books they write. We share it with writers ...
Dorothy Allison Talks About Writing at SBWC
Dorothy Allison talks about writing at SBWC.
NOW: This is my 2024 revision of this post I wrote a few years ago.
As I prepare for publication date of SweetSpot: Now and ...