Today, our Guest Blogger,Ginger Kenney–a writer herself–discusses the joys and wonders of raising a writer.  Raising A Writer I didn’t set out to raise a writer. Who would? Any responsible parent would want her child to be in a field where he could make a living, right? A doctor, maybe. Or a lawyer. Well, no, not…

First, before this week’s blog: Wednesdays is apparently the day for blogging about writing! Author Danielle Ackley-McPhail has begun posting Wednesday writing blogs as well. You can find them here. Our guest blogger for this week is Bernie Mojzes, who has written stories for, among other things, the Bad Ass Faeries Series of anthologies of which I am…

  This weekend we watched a movie with the children. My children are great fun to watch movies with, because they are interested in the process of how stories work. So, I can stop the movie and talk to them about why something happened in the story and what result is expected.   For instance,…

Today we have a guest blogger: Danielle Ackley McPhail is the author of Yesterday’s Dreams and Tomorrow’s Memories, as well as the head editor on the Bad Ass Faeries series, of which I am an assistant editor. Also, she has a Live Journal at Sidhe na Daire. Here are some words of wisdom from her on the subject…

Hey Folks,  This is the final posting in my Prospero Lost Odyssey. The earlier postings are here: Part One: Prospero Lost, an Odyssey Part Two: The Awful Truth About Publishing Part Three: The Long Dark Waiting Of the Soul   The Great Agent Hunt   Now, some of you who read the earlier sections may…

Prospero Lost: A Writer’s Odyssey — Part One and  Part Two    I sent the finished manuscript for Prospero’s Children to my editor, Jim Frenkel, in Summer 2001. What followed was a very, very long wait…very, very long.   Did I mention “very”?   Maybe, I should have explained that by “very” I meant a really, really, really…

Part Two of Prospero Lost: A Writer’s OdysseyPart One can be found here In our last installment, I finished my first novel. To understand what happen next, we need to rewind about sixteen years and take a look at some things I had been up to in the meantime:.   When I got out of college,…

Today, in honor of the release of my first novel, Prospero Lost , (in stores at last!) is Part One of my history of how Prospero Lost came to print.     Humble Beginnings   When I graduated from college, I took a job working for my father, with the agreement that I could write…

  Hello Folks, One week until Prospero Los hits the shelves. (If you missed the announcement about the starred review in Publisher’s Weekly, check the entry below this one.) Today, we have a guest blog but the gracious and lovely Virginia Johnson, author of  the delightful Virginia Horse Racing: Triumphs of the Turf, a non-fiction book on the history of horse…

  Since we started last week with John’s Writing Tips, I thought I would post my writing tips. These are not tips for new writers, but the cumulated wisdom I’ve scraped together for myself. I shared them with some writing friends once before, and they found them helpful. Hope you do, too! Writing Tips   Two…