I am THRILLED to announce that I am now represented by the fantastic Weronika Janczuk ( Read more... )

Happy Holidays to everyone who’s celebrating at this time of year.

And Congratulations!!!**

**Congratulations because by golly, if you’re celebrating AND you have time to read this blog, you must be an excellent planner and be totally prepared for festivities :)

1. While all the other writers are heeding the advice to kill their darlings, Writer Tessa keeps adding extraneous characters. Gorgeous adult male characters ( Read more... )

The Depressed Version ( Read more... )

Last night I was reading Meghan McCain’s Dirty Sexy Politics. By the way, it’s a great book so far (I’m about half way through) so kudos to Meghan McCain and her ghostwriter. Anyway, Meghan McCain uses some nicknames when referring to people she has less than favorable things to say about. She dubbed one of her father’s presidential campaign ( Read more... )

Stacey: Hey, everyone, it’s Stacey and Tiana. So, when you read the title of this blog post, what did you think this post was going to be about ( Read more... )

I love series books. Sequels are fine, but my favorite series books are the ones that don’t necessary continue a story but rather feature the same characters over and over and over again. My favorites books as a kid were Enid Blyton’s Five Find-Outers series and the Sweet Valley High series and later, Sweet Valley University. Of course, there ( Read more... )

I was watching The Amazing Race last night (if you don’t want a spoiler, close your eyes and click away from this page!). The doctors team was last leaving the roadblock because, well, the team member selling the sunglasses at the roadblock sort of sucked as a saleswoman. But when they got in a cab to go to the Pitstop, they had the good fortune ( Read more... )

I’m one of those writers that doesn’t really have a problem coming up with titles for my books. Other writers, please don’t throw things at me! I’m not saying I come up with perfect titles right away. In fact, when I start a new WIP, I always just refer to it by the name of the MC. I don’t consciously think of a title, but usually sometime ( Read more... )

Tiana: Writer Tessa, which unruly characters were you talking about when you asked the nice intern from Literary Agency That Shall Not Be Named what to do when unruly characters hack into your blog? Because Stacey and I are not unruly ( Read more... )