I would never want a fellow writer or writer-friend to suffer. But looking back, I'm almost a tiny bit glad I suffered through the ex...

[ Note: I've got a short post over on the Indelibles blog (link) today. But it's not about me! It's about my good writer-frie...

I'm about to share some advice I haven't completely internalized myself. There's two-parts , so here's #1: Publishing is th...

So I write contemporary young adult romance, right? Well, how many of you have seen a teenager these days who wasn't texting? I'm ...

OK, so originally this post was going to be something about the oil spill. I've been thinking about our beaches and growing up in sout...

First, took the girls to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie yesterday, and it was a hoot! I was glad I'd read the first half of the book al...

No it's not. Silence sucks. It also blows. It's a freak of nature. And it especially blows when you're waiting to hear back abou...

It's funny, no matter how much time passes, I don't think you ever forget the tension of breaking into a new field. It's frustra...