Best-selling and Award-winning Author of Young Adult Thrillers
I have to change the title of my forthcoming YA. It was called LUCKY. I like short pithy titles. My latest completed WIP is called FIERCE. See the trend? Unfortunately there are other books out called LUCKY. There’s a memoir […]
My published MG started with a description of my MC’s life. Small humorous anecdotes. It fit the tone of the book- comic fantasy- but I could probably have begun with a more dynamic scene. Especially since my readership was 9-12 […]
As I trudged up a mile of steep hill this morning, pushing the (almost) three year old in her substantial stroller and thinking about my wrists and thigh muscles, I found myself wondering what the hell I was going to […]
WIN SPRINTS Back in Berkeley when I trained as a boxer I used to run 3 miles a day. Our house overlooked a park – and lest you’re imagining a Central Park kind of scenario let me tell you that […]
More boxing and writing analogies. The first time I punched someone in the face I stopped and said I was sorry.Dont apologize! my trainer, Eric, screamed from the corner, Hit him again. He had to toughen me up. The weird […]
(this post originally appeared January 13 2008 on my old website). I used to box back in Oakland, California. I started as a way to control the stress I was feeling after my best friend died. I figured hitting things […]
Used to be I was so wrapped up in my first book and its characters that I thought about it all the time. You could call it obsessive. The other day I suddenly realized– while explaining the gist of it […]
Lovely and immensely talented author Lucy Coats blogged about overcoming and doing battle with the dastardly writer’s block recently. You can read it and all the useful comments here. Someone raised the question: do fantastically successful writers like JK Rowling […]
aka researching….digging… Before I start writing, I amuse myself (for days and days) by surfing the web and printing pictures which I then pin up above my desk. At the mo’ there is a map of the Vegas strip, a […]
I’m sure all my readers are too young to remember this tv commercial. I can— barely…But basically it was for an Eggo brand waffle- which was in a toaster and when it popped up, two people grabbed for the same […]