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Ian Acheson, Author of ANGELGUARD From the moment I read an interview with Ian Acheson here at Elaine Stock’s blog, Everyone’s Story, I knew I had to read his supernatural book ANGELGUARD. I’m a big THIS PRESENT DARKNESS fan, and this series sounded right up my alley. I was also impressed with how Ian stuck with his dream for ten… Read More
Today, I’m announcing the winner of the Submerged book giveaway on my video blog. I’m also throwing myself out there and giving you the pitch I might have given the editors at ACFW, had I been able to attend. I based my pitch setup on Rachelle Gardner’s excellent pitch post here: http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/secrets-of-a-great-pitch/. I’m sure I botched it up somewhat (totally… Read More
Me and my randomly scrawled notes… I’ve thought about blogging this before, then thought, “Nah–it’s too bleak.” But today during Sunday school, as we talked about growing in Christ and maturing in our Christianity, I realized it’s true: There are no shortcuts. Same thing with marriage, or with parenting. You can read every book out there before you give birth,… Read More
After five attempts at writing a deep blogpost, I gave up. I know some of you have asked about my writing journey. So I thought I’d list a few things I wish someone would’ve told me when I started out. I wasn’t blogging then, so I didn’t really have any fiction-writing mentors (though I’ll give a shout-out to Brian Jones,… Read More
Dani Pettrey Today I feel very privileged to be interviewing romantic suspense author Dani Pettrey. She’s answering lots of writerly questions for us, AND she’s graciously offered to do a book giveaway drawing for a copy of her novel, Submerged. I first “met” Dani through her blog, http://danipettrey.com/, which led to an email conversation about our Nordic roots (we both could’ve… Read More
(T-shirt on cafepress: http://www.cafepress.com/+i_am_an_editor_womens_pink_tshirt,29403353) So sorry for the bloggy break last week, I was out on a “working” spring break, cleaning and painting the house we’re moving into soon. I wanted to comment today on a post I read over at the Books and Such blog: http://www.booksandsuch.biz/blog/choosing-the-perfect-client-unpublished-authors/. Wendy Lawton says that agents “are seeing too many manuscripts too early. One editor… Read More