The list of my bad writing habits is a long one.  Foremost, I struggle with finding the balance between how much detail I should include and how much I should leave to the reader’s imagination. I’m a control freak. I tend to add to more detail than is necessary. To coin a phrase, if a […]

Writers are a superstitious bunch. We believe in ritual. We believe in routine. We believe that if we imbibe the drink of our favorite author, and if we follow the writing quirks of our favorite author, then one day we will assume the publishing life force of our favorite author. One of the memes we’ve […]

  Chapter 1: Tobias Sharpton It had all been a lark, a joke, an adventure; right up to the point where Tobias Sharpton slowed his Toyota Sequoia to a stop at the line of cars waiting to cross the border from Ciudad Acuna into Del Rio, Texas. Ten minutes earlier, tooling northwest down noisy Francisco […]

Some crit groups you dread. Some you look forward to. The one I’m currently in is very interesting, and I’m not using “interesting” as a pejorative euphemism. We could not be more different from one another in style. We are a classic snapshot of the writing experience continuum. This is one of those crit groups […]

As we’ve discussed, only two percent of authors seeking agent representation will ever be signed. The Blue Fairy is one elusive bitch. I’m delighted to tell you that I am officially a Two Percenter. Selfie was accepted for representation by The Transatlantic Agency. It’s a Canadian agency with agents and representation channels in the U.S. […]