My bookshelf and my Kindle are full of memoirs. Whether they allow me into the heart of someone who is recovering from a terrible loss or...

A developmental edit is an edit that focuses on story-level concerns such as plot, pacing, character development, and point of view....

Writers frequently ask how many characters they should have in their novel. Unfortunately, that’s one of those questions that doesn’t...

Stephen King once said, “I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs.” And while this might be a titch hyperbolic, he does have a...

This week I am interviewing author Renee Lovins, author of Ink Deep: Fairy Modern: Beauty & the Beast and the newly released Glass...

Hello! I hope you are enjoying the holiday season with your friends and family. I have been missing from the blog scene over the last few...

Call me Ishmael. Well, actually, call me Erica. Because, you know, that’s my name, and as Dale Carnegie said, “A person’s name is to that...

Have you ever met someone who was always happy, always looked perfectly put together, never seemed to get ruffled, and never made any bad...

Writers hear a lot about character motivation: you have to know what your characters want and why they want it, and you have to make sure...

I follow a lot of authors on Twitter, and many of them describe themselves as “aspiring authors.” Now, perhaps these people are sitting...