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Reading your own reviews...

Like googling yourself, reading your own book's reviews is quite dangerous. I still do it. Not regularly, mind you, because if I read...

It's a diffcult idea for me. I like my book. I like the way it ends. I like the way the characters develop. I like it. It's finished. I...

One day, I'm going to laugh over all the mistakes I made on my road to publishing. I'll share it with new writers and they will laugh....

Probably the most stressful twenty-four hours of my life. Okay, not the most stressful. Getting married was more stressful. Having...

Teaching three children to read will teach you a thing or two. Like, how hard teachers work. Teachers are the most amazing thing. And a...

Our last pastor always said that God has special grace for his children. There is baby-birthing grace. And dying-day grace. There is...

How do I boil a 60k word manuscript down to 6 pages? The answer is: Not very well. This is new for me and there is a learning curve....

I emailed my baby (I mean, manuscript) today. I emailed it to a literary agent. Not my mother. Not my best friend. Not even a...

As a child, I was terrified of spiders. I'm not sure my family even knew. I think I feared someone finding out and putting spiders in my...