4 Tips on Promoting to Educators

Put your Book in Educator’s Classrooms
A friend and I recently sat down with two librarians to talk about what they like to hear in presentations. Their needs were different: one teaches in an elementary school and one in a high school. Yet, they agreed on several things. Educators are one market for most authors of [...]

Retreat Trailer

For an inside glimpse of the Novel Revision Retreat, here’s a short video podcast or trailer from the recent San Rafael, California retreat.

CA Retreat

I’m just back from a Novel Revision Retreat in San Rafael, CA. What a great time. I always learn so much from other writers.

My suite-mate wasn’t taking my class, but I watched her

Prioritize

What Do Writers Do All Day?
I’m just back from Illinois where last weekend, I taught a Novel Revision retreat to a fantastic group of writers. One of the humorous things that happened: One writer had a chapter in which a character wrote about a condominium, but the character couldn’t spell, so wrote, “. . [...]

6 Distractions

Why Some Distractions Are OK
I am distracted these days from writing my novel. It’s partly because I’m teaching a Novel Revision Retreat in Illinois this weekend. But I also find these things to be distracting.

Family. Well, of course, family interferes. Katherine Paterson has said that family takes up so much time and energy, [...]