Simply stated, the theme of a story is a universal truth about the human condition that your story illustrates. Your theme may be as general

This is part of the Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog-hop, designed to help encourage authors and foster discussions about writing topics

By and large, the biggest problem I run into with struggling authors is the challenge they have around marketing themselves.

Every reader loves a good villain, and most writers love them too. If you rack your brain about some of the most memorable characters in..

Have you read a story where the character knew everything that was going on and merely went through a checklist to solve the problem?

When you are describing something, it looks a certain way. Yes indeedy. We get that. We got it three paragraphs ago. We got the visual...

A few weeks ago, I came across a review on Goodreads mentioning Laurie Colwin and how, in that reader’s opinion, she was one of the few ...

As with any other profession, you will face many opinions from different people when it comes to writing, who may, most of the time, have...

Writing a query letter is an art, they say. What they really mean is that it’s really gosh-darn hard.

As with any other profession, you will face many opinions from different people when it comes to writing, who may, most of the time, have...

As soon as you sit down to market your work, you need to know what it is that you’ve written. You may have some idea from comparing your...

A list of three things I'd tell my younger self about writing.

Writers are courageous. However what makes writers courageous?

Perfectionism is a killer. Most of the time, I think I’ve taken care of my perfectionist tendencies. But then a time like this resurges in

I want to talk for a fast minute about query letters. For those of you who don’t know what they are, or for those who know very little, this

At first, I wasn’t sure which pitfall to talk about—the challenge of finding time to write, the struggles of getting published, the...

I’ve launched three different books in the past couple years and I’ve definitely noticed a pattern. Every time I go into “launch mode”...

The right title for your book is incredibly important: It’s what you and everyone else will be calling it the rest of your life.

It’s possible to learn quite a bit from other people’s writing.

I’m here to give you some tips on how to stick to your goals, basically by sharing what works for me.