Great blogs for writers

Every time I turn my head, a new industry blog turns up. Some of them are full of high-quality content, and others seem slapped together,  full of regurgitated information that has been repackaged again and again, only with different bullet points and a new stock photo. Trying to find the great blogs among so many [...]

This Week: Win signed books from Elizabeth Boyle & Gina Robinson

We’re giving away a total of six romance novels from Pacific Northwest Authors in three weeks. The books were bought and signed at the King County Library’s Romance Extravaganza. Click here for last week’s post. We had a total of 42 readers enter our first giveaway contest for Katie MacAlister’s STEAMED and Cherry Adair’s NIGHT [...]

Interviews with Experts: 3 steps to getting interviews

Last Thursday, I shared the query letter that helped me get an article published in the award-winning eZine, WOW! Women on Writing. Today, I’ll give you the three steps I used to get interviews with experts. Just a refresher — since I didn’t have recent clips, the interviews were what I depended upon to strengthen [...]

First Giveaway! Win signed books from Katie MacAlister & Cherry Adair

The time has come for the first Inky Fresh book giveaway! As I mentioned in my post about the Romance Extravaganza, we have a stack of signed books from romance authors, just waiting for good homes. We’ll be doing a giveaway each Friday for the next three weeks. This week’s winner will get signed copies [...]

Query Letter Success: Article for WOW! Women on Writing

A few weeks ago, I shared my favorite query letter guide, the Writer’s Digest GUIDE TO QUERY LETTERS by Wendy Burt-Thomas. This week, I am sharing a query letter I wrote using Burt-Thomas’s guide. The query letter is one that I wrote for the online magazine, WOW! Women On Writing. The magazine had a call [...]

the Word of the Week is “supercilious”

I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s-self is, And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral, dressed in his shroud, And I or [...]

Author Interview: JoMarie DeGioia

Romance author JoMarie DeGioia took a moment away from her busy life (think: a family, a day job, multiple manuscripts, and a RWA workshop chair position) to share her thoughts on writing, finding an agent, and writer associations. I “met” JoMarie through Shenandoah Writers Online, a writing community that is free to join and a [...]

the word of the week is “traduce”

Unfortunately, however, “The War Lovers” is the sort of popular history that misleads as much as it entertains. The comparison between Cuba and Iraq is fanciful, and not only because it is preposterous to equate Roosevelt with either George Bush or Mr Cheney. The Spanish-American war enjoyed deep and broad public support, far greater than [...]

Contest: 3-Day Novel

Can you produce a masterwork of fiction in a mere 72 hours? The International 3-Day Novel Contest is your chance to find out. The contest has run every Labour Day Weekend since 1977 and now attracts writers from all over the world. It’s a thrill, a grind, and an awesome creative experience. How many crazed [...]

the Word of the Week is “callipygian”

Julia Turner: Ginning up the nerve to squeeze through, you sort of milled around the doorway and watched as a little old lady, kind of, steel [sic] her shoulder like a football linebacker and just kind of edge her way through and then the men’s members were just kind of swaying in the breeze after [...]

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