Interview with Marci Guerrero

It wasn’t easy but, to my delight, today on the blog I managed to get an interview with Marci Guerrero. Marci is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Seattle. She’s a black belt in karate, loves to ride motorcycles—recently bought her first one,...

2014 Writing Goals Recap

Another year, another dollar… So December is winding down. This means it’s time for me to do a 2014 writing goals review. How did I do? Did I accomplish all of them? Well . . . no 🙁 Fortunately. Huh? Fortunately? Um, I think you need a big “UN”...

My Book Journey

My journey as an author has been long and arduous. Through the years I’ve learned much and with each new book I’ve gotten better and closer to my dream: a book deal. I thought it might be interesting to show this journey in terms of a book timeline, so...

Top 3 Reasons to Get a Literary Agent

During my writing years, I’ve met many authors, all in many stages of their publishing careers. New authors, seasoned authors; fly-by-night authors, committed authors; enthusiastic authors, disenchanted authors; indie-published authors, traditionally-published...

You have an offer from a publisher

You have an offer from a publisher . . . but you don’t have an agent I never thought I would have an offer from a publisher before finding a literary agent, but this past February, that’s just what happened. Panic could have easily ensued, but, in the end, I...