ON THE VERGE

An editor at a writing conference told a story about a librarian from Florida who decided not to purchase a new picture book about snow. Wh...

I’ve always hated writing pitches. For the uninitiated, a pitch is a brief description of a manuscript written to grab the attention of an e...

Okay. Let’s say you’ve been writing seriously for six years (and half-seriously for ten more). You set a word count every day, and you hit...

The past few weeks I’ve read several practically impossible to put down books, and it got me wondering what it is exactly about a book that ...

So a few weeks ago my darling agent of nearly two years decided to retire, and upon hearing the news I found myself sobbing in a hotel bathr...

Hearing all these crazy stories of my mom’s e-fame has finally gotten to me. I crave some of the attention that you 41 blog-readers can prov...

Remember your first love? Remember that electric charge that shot through your fingertips when his hand brushed against yours? Remember wait...