communication

Baby Talk: How to Write Kids’ Dialogue that Doesn’t Suck

Please check out my most recent article, recently featured in NINK, the newsletter of Novelists Inc. I can still remember a marketing debrief from my early days at Harlequin, when...

WHERE DO EDITORS COME IN?

At the recent Novelists’ Inc conference in St. Pete Beach, Florida, Mary Theresa Hussey and I offered a panel discussion on the role of freelance editors in the publishing process. ...

The Middletons were NOT amused! Ten Tips for Justin Johanssen’s–and your–NEXT best man’s speech

The whole word was watching last weekend when Justin Johanssen really stepped in it. The best friend, and best man of James Matthews, Pippa Middleton’s new husband, delivered an off-color,...