Jul 15, 2026 | On Mindfulness
By Paula Munier The writer’s path can be as challenging and frustrating as it is exciting and rewarding. The trick is to hang in there through the good and the bad, the rejection and the bestseller list. This means nurturing, nourishing, and celebrating your writer...
Oct 23, 2024 | On Writing
Text Description: Title: Who Do You Want to be When You Grow Up as a Writer? Identify those authors whom you most admire in your genre and your subgenre. Study their work and figure out what sets their work apart from their peers. How did they break out? What was...
Sep 29, 2020 | On Writing
One of the most common questions you can expect to hear when you pitch your work to agents and editors is this: What are your comps? Comps are comparable titles. That is, profitable books similar to yours that can help support the idea that your project can find an...
Sep 15, 2020 | On Writing
Everywhere I go I hear writers complain about the black hole that is every literary agent’s in-box—the slush pile—that dark and dangerous place where their queries and manuscripts go in, never to be seen again. Kind of like all those socks that go into the dryer,...