What’s your favorite line?
I’m reading a new middle grade novel from a client, and I came across a line I just love. In it, he is describing a pack of dogs on the attack: “They were a boiling wave of flailing paws and arching...
View ArticleGetting the Words Right.
A published author and a Facebook friend posted the following exchange to her profile, excerpted from a Paris Review Interview with Ernest Hemingway. INTERVIEWER How much rewriting do you do? HEMINGWAY...
View ArticleWhich or that and other gripes about grammar
The question of “which” versus “that” came up when I drafted my last blog post and the person editing my post took a stab at which one she thought it should be but then suggested I double check. Here’s...
View ArticleBookscapes
It’s impossible to quantify the power of books. Books are comfort, knowledge, strength, humor, heartache, faith, experience, society, joy…and pretty much everything else you want to ascribe to them....
View ArticleA book can change your life
The title of this post might be overly dramatic, but if you look hard enough you will find some pretty incredible stories about people whose lives were changed by books and reading. One of those...
View ArticleRead this piece (aka more on Stephen King)!
I am really not obsessed with Stephen King. I do think he’s amazing and a genius, and I’d like to spend a day living inside his brain, but I really don’t follow his every move. Which is why it’s kind...
View ArticleThe dead zone
This time of the year in publishing is affectionately known as the dead zone. Everyone is either on vacation or too busy catching up on the piles that grew while they were beachside somewhere to...
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Look it up!
Remember that corny cliché about every book ever written being found within the pages of a dictionary? I’ve always gotten such a kick out of that because I love dictionaries. I love the tiny print,...
View ArticleBeware of Homophones
Faithful readers of this blog know that I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to grammar/spelling errors in a query. Some agents don’t mind but it’s a big distraction for me. And one of the mistakes...
View ArticleA Verbal Confession
My brother is taking a course in professional writing that is required for his criminal justice degree…and I’ve been receiving panicked phone calls at random times asking for explanations of various...
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