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  • Mental Health Week is the focus for this week in Canada. Posted about it at my blog PM27's Blog; also, shared with SheWrites group of Writers in Canada. This topic inv...
  • I'm enjoying the Interesting conversations. Perhaps the strength of a good critique is the ability of reader/crit is to judge what an author needs. Surely most of us a...
  • i've been involved with the self publishing community for years (past president of bay area independent publishers association, series at commonwealth club, etc.)... ...
  • Thanks for another dose of wise counsel based on your expertise with all things publishing, Brooke. In the past two years, both a big-time agent, then the editor of an...
  • I also just had my first YA novel published by MuseItUp Publishing and I am very happy with them? The publisher, Lea Schizas goes out. Of her way to let us know any ne...
  • I'm not sure there's anything much harder for a woman with passion, ambition and success than that allusive work/life balance. Maybe it's the classic Type-A syndrome:...
  • Gaylene, I agree with you. I've never had any luck trying to engineer a story. At this point I beleive that a novel is not so much created by the writer as it is disco...
  • Patricia, One of my favorite story lines involves an old gothic victorian house. The Gothic is a character in itself. I love writing that story line.
  • Your story sounds like my own! I'm a college professor in a field that's got nothing to do with creative writing (costuming for stage/film/TV), and i've published acad...
  • I do think the idea that a book is "women's fiction" is doomsday for book prizes. And for some reason, I feel myself sharing the distaste of the term (and of bright pi...