March 7, 2025March 7, 2025Uncategorized Mentoring for Writers Mentoring for writers on Patreon! Workshops, Master Classes and (soon) live Zooms! Over 153 videos and posts so far and I’m adding […]
February 17, 2025July 15, 2025Uncategorized Author Spotlight with Erin Nieto I had a wonderful time chatting with Erin Nieto, author of Love & Conductivity! Erin had a real life adventure as an art […]
February 16, 2025July 15, 2025Uncategorized The Birth, Care & Feeding of Critique Groups I’m back with Robert Spiller and this week we’re talking about our experience with critique groups. Some things worked for us, and […]
January 15, 2025Uncategorized 2025 Conference Schedule If you’d like to pitch to me via Zoom at an online conference, or meet me in person, here’s my 2025 conference […]
January 15, 2025Uncategorized First Pages Contest With Literary Agent Critique Writing Day Workshop is running a First Pages Contest for 1) young adult fiction, 2) romance, women’s, historical, and 3) adult sci-fi […]
January 12, 2025July 15, 2025Uncategorized A New Way to Think About Show Don’t Tell I’m back with Robert Spiller and we’re talking about a different way to think about a writing rule. Here, we go draft […]
December 26, 2024July 15, 2025Uncategorized Evocation: How to Evoke Emotion in Your Readers As an author, how do you get your readers to feel? Is there some skill that has to be learned or does […]
December 26, 2024July 15, 2025Uncategorized 15 Query Letter & Submission Mistakes to Avoid 15 Query Letter and Submission Mistakes To Avoid, taught by Brandy Vallance. Once you understand some basics about crafting a query and submitting […]
August 24, 2024August 24, 2024Uncategorized Quarterfinalist for The Lady Illuminators Screenplay I received some wonderful news yesterday! My screenplay, THE LADY ILLUMINATORS, was named in the Final Draft Pro Screenwriting Competition! Here’s the […]
August 6, 2024August 6, 2024Uncategorized Robert T. Spiller Teaches Page Sculpting for Writers Page sculpting can be the difference between someone turning the page of your novel or closing the book. Sometimes poor page sculpting […]