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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...

Great Sound Bites–Deconstructed!

Sheryl Sandberg, CEO of Facebook, famously had this to say when promoting her book, Lean In, about women in the workplace: “Men still run the world. And I’m not sure...

How to Propose a Toast that Delivers the Most!

‘Tis the season.  No, not that season. Wedding season. Well, truthfully, celebration season is more like it. Anniversaries, special birthdays, retirements and graduations all call for toasts, a few charming...