RIP

Makes me want to go reread Howl's Moving Castle.

It's shaping up to be another bad year as far as losing people who have been cultural fixtures since my childhood.

Knight Agency client and USA Today bestselling author Katherine Garbera will be chatting tonight in the TKA chat room. Come by at 9pm ET/ 6pm PT to hear about Katherine's Miami Nights series and the secret to her career longevity--she's got more than 50 novels to her credit! Full details over at the agency blog. Hope to see you there!

Win a trip to Tybee Island,courtesy of Deidre Knight and Elle Jasper. Tybee is located near Savannah, Georgia, where both Deidre and Elle have set their series. So what's the deal?

Simply tell Deidre and Elle why you think you deserve this romantic getaway. Best answer wins! The prize includes 2 nights at the beautiful Lighthouse Inn, dinner at ( Read more... )

I talk about this a lot. It's a phrase I use in rejection letters and when I'm speaking at conferences. I see a great many manuscripts that show promise: good story, interesting characters, steady pacing that builds suspense. But all too often, the writers have jumped the gun and sent me a draft that still clearly needs rewriting ( Read more... )

That's the publisher, not Dorothy Parker and friends. Anyway, they're having a live webcast on March 21st at 7:00pm ET, featuring Julia Alvarez in conversation with Edwidge Danticat. Talk about two powerhouse writers. Both of these women write beautifully and with great compassion and tenderness of their homelands and the resiliance of the human ( Read more... )

Just finished posting responses to everyone's questions over at The Knight Agency blog. Thanks to everyone who participated!

I'm answering questions today over at the TKA blog. Head on over if you'd like to participate.

Things are moving at a rapid clip here right now, a result of lots of inspiring travel and way more to do than time to do it. I'm on something of a reading wave right now, which sounds like something I probably always do but in reality I rarely have time to do a great deal of back-to-back reading. Other things get in the way, like contracts and ( Read more... )

Greetings, all. I'm back from a whirlwind of trips this week, back-to-back. Wanted to send up a wave and give you something fun to check out. Apartment Therapy Re-Nest has a great post up on small houses and sheds that writers have used for their "offices." I think Roald Dahl's is the cutest from the outside, but the modern girl in me prefers ( Read more... )

I'm having a crazy, between-trips kind of a day, but I wanted to send out a quick hurray and congratulations to Shannon K. Butcher, whose new romantic suspense, LIVING ON THE EDGE, hits stores today! This is the first in a fabulous new series, and I'm very excited for Shannon.