I was a part of the Healthy Writer blog’s Getting Off That Roller Coaster presentation at the 2010 RWA National Conference last month in Orlando.   One of the points of our presentation was that many writers (me) tend to spend a lot of their day being sedentary.   Aka, sitting on my butt, writing stories.  I [...]

I’m so beyond thrilled to share with the few and far between who haven’t already heard me screaming with excitement the news that my awesome critique partner, Beth Andrews, won the RITA in the Series Contemporary category last weekend with her fabulous, heart-touching story, A NOT-SO-PERFECT-PAST.

ISBN: 978-037315565
Everyone makes mistakes…but he isn’t looking for redemption
He’s [...]

I love RWA‘s yearly National Conference.  I really do.  But every year, it takes me at least a week to recover from all that conference love.  I think that this year I’ve finally figured out why, though.
Here’s the basic outline of every conference.
Take an introverted writer (hey, most of us really are – despite those [...]

I’m blogging about Spark over at Novelist, Inc today – stop by and chat with me. I’d love to know what you think makes a story spark, what gives you that Oooooh moment when you read and draws you into a story!

By Author Virna DePaul & Harlequin Blaze Author Tawny Weber: A New Craft Book For Writers
OVER 300 PAGES OF CRAFT, INDUSTRY INSIGHT, AND MOTIVATIONAL TOOLS!

Written by authors Virna DePaul (www.virnadepaul.com), and Tawny Weber (www.tawnyweber.com), “Love Writing” is a comprehensive new resource intended to benefit both new and experienced writers.  Although [...]