Tag Archives: #create2021

Last chance to join 12 Weeks to a Nano Win free!

This month, subscribers have received the first four out of twelve customized email lessons full of tips, tricks, exercises, and inspiration aimed at helping you find that elusive NaNo win!  The FREE 12 Weeks to Your NaNo Win course includes the following topics: Finding the elusive “high concept” idea Researching genre and comp titles ChoosingContinue reading “Last chance to join 12 Weeks to a Nano Win free!”

Join me in Blueprint for a Book Coach: The Working Sessions

I’m appearing in Session Three of the Blueprint for a Book half-day webinar on Friday, September 24, 2021, 8am PT / 10am CT / 11am ET. During this event, Author Accelerator founder and CEO Jennie Nash – who designed and developed the Blueprint for a Book method after helping her clients land six-figure book dealsContinue reading “Join me in Blueprint for a Book Coach: The Working Sessions”

Pitch Wars LIVE: Middle Grade Mentor Chat | 9.16.21, 7-9 PM EST

All your Middle Grade Pitch Wars questions: answered! Come hang out with me and my fellow MG Pitch Wars Mentors live today (September 16) at 4PM PT/ 7PM EST. Want to learn about Pitch Wars and don’t know where to start? Pop in and ask your questions or just say hi! We’d love to “see”Continue reading “Pitch Wars LIVE: Middle Grade Mentor Chat | 9.16.21, 7-9 PM EST”

12 Weeks to a NaNo Win

In July’s newsletter, I promised something special and here it is: My FREE 12 Weeks to Your NaNo Win course! I’ve always wanted to take my readers along on my National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) journey. And now I’m going to do it! Next week, subscribers will receive the first of twelve customized email lessonsContinue reading “12 Weeks to a NaNo Win”

It’s Official! I’m a 2021 Pitch Wars Mentor

I’m absolutely thrilled to be mentoring middle grade in Pitch Wars for the fifth year running! This community has meant everything to me over the past seven years and I can’t wait to meet the next members of our Pitch Wars family (shout out to #teamunicornmojo–I love you!). If you’ve followed me for a while, youContinue reading “It’s Official! I’m a 2021 Pitch Wars Mentor”

Partnership with She Writes Press

I’m thrilled to be part of a new book coaching partnership between She Writes Press/Spark Press and Author Accelerator. These amazing hybrid publishers are providing authors with so many exciting new ways to get their books out into the world and now they’re bringing in a select group of Author Accelerator-certified book coaches to helpContinue reading “Partnership with She Writes Press”

Beach Dreams

A poem of longing This post originally appeared on thecreative.cafe. This week, the world turned bitter,as if Mother Nature decided she’d given usa long enough reprieve from winter.And so she sent her sparkling frost,her freezing temperatures,a breeze sharp enough to cutthrough fleece and down.She sent ice skating across the surface of the pond,refracting crystals creepingContinue reading “Beach Dreams”

Peek Behind the (Editorial) Curtain

A step-by-step look at how a short story’s opening paragraph changed during revisions Read it on Medium Writers talk a lot about revision. “Revision is where the magic happens.” “I’m going into the revision cave.” “I revised this 852 times before publication.” But to aspiring writers who are still hoping for their first chance toContinue reading “Peek Behind the (Editorial) Curtain”

On Wildness, an Invocation

Rediscovering that buried ember in trying times More than twenty-five years ago, three friends and I drove round and round Monument Circle in our hometown of Indianapolis, convertible top-down and music blasting. It was 1992 so the Pretty Woman soundtrack was our music of choice. Of course, it was Natalie Cole’s Wild Women Do. The refrain was ourContinue reading “On Wildness, an Invocation”