story development

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. ...

How to Have a Great Conversation: Listen Up!

It’s not a secret:  the best conversationalists are rarely the ones with their mouths open. Your wittiest friends likely have great powers of observation, and those people you most admire...