Bayou, Boots & Belief: Inside the Heart of Blue Jean Bayou
Anita Klumpers on Faith, Small Towns, and Killing Spring
Slightly Singed: Interview with Author Tracy Wainwright on Scorched Dreams
Jordan Valley Miss – Available Today
Welcome Susan Spess What is your writing schedule like? I usually write early in the morning each...
Love Stumbled In – Coming Soon
In the years of World War I and the flu epidemic that followed, American society and its people...
Conflict development: ensuring proper progression
Lately, I’ve been seeing a goodly number of manuscripts where there are conflict discrepancies....
As A Woman Thinketh
Lately I’ve seen a recurring theme in some of the manuscripts I am reading. I have written about...
Covert Emotion/Building Character
I am a character-driven editor – give me a good, solid character and you will grab my attention...
Developing Relationship
In romance, the paramount part of the story is developing a relationship. Hero and heroine should...
Editing the Middle
I see a lot of stories that start out showing potential--more than potential, in fact; I'm...
Show, don’t tell…
Show, don’t tell.How many times have you seen that written in a rejection you’ve received? What...
Editing tip: Keeping track of POV
A year or so ago I wrote up a little article that gave some tips on how to spot errors in your...
Consider Your Reader
One of the hardest issues confronting writers today is our audience. They are, at the same time,...
Creating a Realistically Flawed Christian Hero
This week, Senior Editor Jamie West, gave some wonderful insight into creating characters. Today,...