Category: Blog
My writing trip, part 1
I am long past due writing about my trip to Utah. The end of March I went up to teach a couple of writing classes at the LDStorymakers conference, do a school visit (Brockbank Junior High Rocks!) and in general…Happy Birthday, theoretically speaking
I’m celebrating a birthday soon–although of course when you get to my age you don’t actually celebrate them. You dread them, you try to dodge them, you sigh with that same it-can’t-be-here-again-already expression you get when the dentist informs you…Janette gets lost
Some of us weren’t blessed with a sense of direction. The fairy responsible for bestowing that gift on me at birth—in Sleeping Beauty like fashion—obviously got lost somewhere and never made it to my cradle. I take heart that I’m…Edit Your Novel Month
I heard on the radio that March is the official edit-your-novel-month. Which of course begs the question: Are other authors only editing their novels one month out of the year? How do I get that gig? I’m editing all of…Am I Smarter than a Fifth Grader . . .
I have fifth grade twins so I’m doubly qualified to answer this question. I was trying to help my daughter with her math the other night. It was something about probability. Like, if you have a coin and you flip…Vote on your favorite cover.
For those of you who don’t stop by my website because I never have new content on it–guess what? I put on new content! (Okay, I didn’t; I paid someone else to do it for me, but still, it’s there.)…Editing Myopia
I just finished going over the galleys for Revenge of the Cheerleaders. Reading galleys is like sending a child off to college. You just hope you did a good job somewhere along the line and put in enough time, effort,…Why you don’t want me to critique your novel . . .
As a writer I often have aspiring authors ask me to critique their manuscripts. They shouldn’t. I’m far too harsh. Hardly anyone asks me to critique their work twice. The truth of the matter is that I don’t even like…The Higher Power of Lucky and the S word
Everyone in the book world seems to be weighing in on the fervor caused by the S-word in the newly crowned Newbery book: The Higher Power of Lucky, by Susan Patron. I imagine most of my compatriots in literature will…Another Call From My Editor
My editor just called to talk to me about self promotion and book publicity–specifically how I need to be doing both. (I remember fondly the good old days when I thought my job was to write books.) Anyway, with that…Then again, maybe anonymity isn’t so bad.
I know in my New Year’s resolutions blog I resolved to become wildly famous because, unlike some people, I could live a life free of embarrassing myself by stepping out of limos while only half dressed. But I didn’t take…Why I Need a Live-in Copy Editor
As you can tell by my last post, I was involved in an internet game of telling five things people don’t know about me and then tagging five other bloggers. So after I’d written my post I went to my…Stay In The Loop
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