Once again, I’m blessed to have K.M. Weiland visting the my blog. Today, we’re talking about her new novel, Dreamlander and Themes. Hello, Katie, it’s nice to have you back at my blog. This time I get to celebrate with you the release of your latest novel, Dreamlander. While I …
Put Victoria Mixon’s books on the top of your writing craft to-read list. Mixon’s second Art & Craft of Writing manual takes the outstanding content of the first and brings it to a formidably high level. Simply put, the two books together would easily serve as brilliant texts for …
Author of Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success This week, I’m privileged to have K.M. Weiland back to talk about outlining. Katie is the author of two novels and one book on writing, as well as the blogger behind the award-winning writing site, Wordplay, and the multi-author blog, …
Victoria Mixon’s The Art & Craft of Fiction: a Practitioner’s Manual 2010, La Favorita Press The Review One of the frustrations when buying instructional books is determining if a book is written for someone of a similar skill level as yourself. In a break between writing, I spent five years …
Improviser, please One of the ticks of the writing community I loathe is the use of “pantser” (for seat-of-the-pants-er) to describe people who don’t outline. Pantser brings to mind a middle school boy who yanks down other people’s trousers. Not exactly the kind of person I want to be associated …
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak My rating: 5 of 5 stars I read the last fifth of The Book Thief sobbing, something I’ve never done before—and this was coming after a spectacular morning on a beautiful day. I’m not somebody who cries easily over fiction. However, Markus Zusak does …
Note I suspect this is the last time I’ll write on this topic until I am in the process of making the decision about getting an agent or self-publishing. Likely, much will have changed at that point, even if it’s just a year from now. I am writing this as …