by Shannon Dittemore | May 22, 2020 | Creativity, Plot, The Craft of Writing, Writing
It’s Friday, beautiful friends! And today, we’re talking about surprising our readers. I have been elated by all the mystery books appearing on the YA shelves these past few years. It’s not a new trend, by any means. Nancy Drew has been solving...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 15, 2020 | Author Life, Brainstorming, Mailbag, Story Ideas, Writing, Writing Life
Happy Friday, friends! Today, we’re answering a question that showed up in our mailbag. You know you can send us questions, right? There’s a form just for that purpose right at the bottom of our homepage. Feel free to drop us a line and, if we’re...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 8, 2020 | Getting Published, Marketing, Writing, Writing As A Business
What is a tagline, does my book need one, and how do I craft something that hits on all the right notes? These are the questions we’re going to answer today, and I’m going to do that by sharing some of the taglines I found on my shelf, and by giving you a...
by Shannon Dittemore | May 1, 2020 | Author Life, Reading, Writing, Writing Life
This week there’s been some buzz in the online book community. Especially in the YA sector where an author who’s been fairly quiet for a while jumped back into the thick of things. Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga, posted a countdown on her...
by Shannon Dittemore | Apr 24, 2020 | Creativity, Encouragement, Writing, Writing Life
Why do we compare ourselves to others? Why do we compare our victories and our failures to that of those around us? And why do we compare our writing journey to the road laid out for another? There are plenty of answers to these questions, but I suspect they all start...
