If you’re my friend on Facebook, or follow me on Twitter, you will know that I’ve revealed the big secret I’ve been keeping: That I’m starting a small press with a friend. I don’t feel ready to give many details about it yet because I’m still working on the website and a variety of details … Read more
Amazon has recently opened up blog access on the Kindle to any blog, not just the top ones that Amazon picks. That means that you, or I, or anyone can put their blog up on Amazon for people to subscribe to. It also means that anyone can put your blog up on Amazon for people … Read more
I recently updated my Critiques page. The more general question of when or if a writer needs a freelance editor feels like the overarching reasons for the changes that I made, so I thought I’d address them in a post. Bear in mind that this mostly addresses the editing of full manuscripts; submission packet critiques … Read more
It’s rather last-minute notice, but if you’re going to be in Utah Valley tomorrow, consider stopping by the Utah Valley University campus and coming to my panel for the the Association of Mormon Letters conference. Here’s the details: YA Literature and Mormon Literature UVU Library 2:30 p.m., Feb. 28th I’ll be the moderator, and several … Read more
For the last couple of days I’ve been at BYU’s Life, the Universe, and Everything, sniffling my way through several panels. The zombie cold seems to be lightening up–it was a whole lot worse yesterday than it was today, though my nose still feels like it’s a drippy faucet. So far I’ve had a great … Read more
I never really thought I’d ever be in a position to start my own business. I never really liked to think about money–growing up, we never had any to worry about, and in college my money management skills were about equal to Wall Street’s current crisis. But because I didn’t grow up learning those skills, … Read more
This proves it: REAL writers use typewriters.
To tell me about your favorite children’s book/publishing related websites. I so seldom actually look at my own front page that it took me until today to realize that not only did I have out of date links on the sidebar from since I’d left Mirrorstone, but that I’d never really updated them when I … Read more
I’ve had conversations with a few friends outside the publishing industry lately who tell me that they think self publishing is the way to go for their fiction. They’ve got a lot of reasons for it, but the one that stands out is that they think they can make more money by self-publishing, because writers … Read more
Cheryl Klein from Scholastic just posted some really good advice on how to become a book editor. The only thing I’d add to the internship advice is that if you need to work your way through school, as I did, colleges often have student editorial jobs. At BYU, where I went to school, I was … Read more
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