So after many months of thinking about it, I finally broke down and downloaded Scrivener. Lots of my fellow writers rave about it, and it sounded really useful. Plus you can try it for thirty days for free. I had nothing to lose. I started the tutorial yesterday and finished it up today. It is … Continue reading
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Introducing Adventure Anna!
Meet Adventure Anna, a seven-year-old girl who’s a cross between Indiana Jones and Junie B. Jones. It’s the third week of second grade, and Anna is the new kid in school. She has no friends, but she’s already found an enemy who constantly teases her in front of their snickering classmates. If only everyone could see the amazing things … Continue reading
Sneak Peek
In a few days, I’ll be revealing my in-progress chapter book series to the world. In the meantime, consider this photo as a teaser. This jacket, combined with an iconic hat we bought last October, gives the protagonist her distinctive and immediately recognizable “look.” Like Anna, she’s a young girl (seven in the first book) and … Continue reading
Eight Terrible Titles
There’s a fun hashtag going around Twitter called #8TerribleTitles. It’s an invitation to an ongoing blog hop where writers take eight random phrases from their manuscript and turn them into terrible titles for hypothetical books. My colleague Kiersi Burkhart and her fellow Sweet Sixteens writers jumped into the fun last week and now I’m crashing … Continue reading
How to Care for Your Writer
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