Websites 4 Writers either I or my friends enjoy on a regular basis.
Is pandemic boredom setting in? Are you getting a little tired of scrolling through Netflix? Want to be entertained and learn something this year? Now is an excellent time to check out the MasterClass series. Their topic selection has grown so much over the last year with interests relating to food, design, arts, music, writing,…
Last week I received an email from Baihley Grandison, the Assistant Editor of Writer’s Digest, letting me know that Book-in-a-Week.com (BIW) had been selected for the “101 Best Website for Writers” May/June 2016 issue of Writer’s Digest. The Web Issue. This was exciting news of course but I wanted to let it sink in before…
Hi! I’m Lea Wait. In 1998 I left the corporate life and moved to Maine to write fiction full-time. At first I spent most of my time cleaning and arranging a family home no one had lived in full-time for twenty years, and taking care of my disabled mother. And, of course, writing. I felt…
For some time I only measured my word count when writing a piece of a specific length, or taking part in a challenge such as National Novel Writing Month or Book-in-a-Week. Recently, I have begun to explore how measuring word count on a day-to-day basis encourages me to write more and better. There are many…
Angela Misri is the up-and-coming Canadian author of the new mystery series, A Portia Adams Adventure. The first book in the series is called Jewel of the Thames and is actually featured on Kindle at the moment for $4.60. But what I really wanted to share with you is the adorable Fiction Writing series that…
It is incredible how everything you dream about depends on a one page letter. You could write the greatest novel ever but if your query stinks, no one will ever read your novel. What Is It? The sole purpose of the query is to “hook” the agent into requesting the first three chapters or better…
A writer friend of mine, Keris Stainton has just released her third book, Emma Loves LA. What is so amazing about Keris is that prior to publication of her first book, she had already established a wide fan base using social media. I interviewed her for Writers Forum UK two years ago on this very…
Grammar and Punctuation Recently, while sending out my current work-in–progress (WIP) to the round of agents, I came across an agent’s blog that was downright scary. The spelling and punctuation were atrocious. She even violated a basic rule of using a plural verb form with a singular noun. It was quite annoying; after all, are…