The Writers’ Platform-Building Campaign

As the world turns more and more toward social media, writers struggle to find a way to connect with people and get the word out about their latest projects, to meet others who are like us and move forward in the quickly shifting landscape of publishing. Lucky for us,...

Curing Lemuelitis

This week one of the authors in my writer’s guild, Rob Ficiur, wrote this great post on a serious plague in our society: Lemuelitis Murmuronia. Here’s an excerpt: Years ago the plague of Poliomyelitis ravaged the world. Polio was the most dreaded childhood...

What I learned from judging the Whitney Awards

Okay, first things first, the Whitney Awards is a program to recognize great writing by LDS people. Some of the books have LDS characters and themes, but many do not, and there were big national titles that qualified this year all over the place from Anne Perry, Allie...

Politics, writing, and my life

Can I say that I’m a complete and utter blogging slacker? On the other hand, I’ve had some interesting things going on. My husband is running for county auditor, and he’s been sick for the past week–thankfully he’s finally starting to...

Is Your Bottle Full?

I recently started a nearly full-time job, which has my schedule all mixed up and robbed lots of my free time, so my blogging may continue to be less regular than it once was, and I apologize about that. I’m just trying to keep my golf balls all where they...