Letting Go of Your Novel – One Writer’s Story
by RV Howard You’ve finished your first manuscript. Maybe. Well, there is that one comma. . . It’s not easy to release a novel into the world. Some are fearful of Continue reading
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Sisters in Crime
The Sisters in Crime of this year’s Wine, Women, and Words Festival Saturday, May 12th, 5:20 PM: Sisters in Crime – Barbara DeMarco Barrett moderator Barbara DeMarco Barrett hosts Writers Continue reading
Twitter Pitches and Loglines- Before the Beginning
Twitter pitches have helped me fight my way through logline hell. Every author I know hates to write loglines—at least for their own stories. I’m no exception. But before Continue reading
How to Have a Love Affair with Your Reader
by Greta Boris Many writers are caught in a terrible love triangle between their protagonist and their audience. We must, we’re told, write compelling, likable, fascinating characters. We must also Continue reading
Generosity: A year-long priority
by Megan Haskell Can you believe it’s December, already? Where has the year gone? This month, the O.C. Writers blog will be talking about generosity and giving back to our Continue reading
Productivity, Thankfulness, and Super Chickens
by Greta Boris Looking for your publishing dream team? Most of us think if we could only find our publishing dream team—agent to the elite, Big Five press, superstar editor, Continue reading
Taking the Terror out of the Query Process
by Greta Boris Ask any author, no matter how successful, their least favorite part of the job. It will invariably have something to do with the query process. Either they Continue reading
Four Phases of Competence – Where are you?
by Greta Boris The brilliant, elusive experts say there are four phases of competence: Unconscious Incompetence: you’re so ignorant you don’t know what you don’t know (consequently you think you’re awesome) Continue reading
September: Back to School and Back to Basics
by Megan Haskell I can hardly believe it’s been a month since we started this blog. I hope you’re as excited as I am about our wonderful contributors and the regular Continue reading
Traditionally Challenged: Today’s Publishing Options
by Greta Boris In 2010, ebooks slammed into the publishing world and caused an earthquake of epic proportions. The dam the Big 5 had erected cracked in the upheaval and Continue reading