How to Revise a Novel

Why Is That Book Taking You So Long?

Recently, one of my writing students asked for advice on how she should structure her novel. “I already have fifty pages and I don't know

Congratulations to everyone who took part in NaNoWriMo! Whether you made it to the finish line or not, we probably all have this in common after

I sent the complete draft of my new novel to my agent in September. When I got her editorial notes some weeks later, there were more things

So you finished your novel. Congratulations! Now what? If you're like me, the first thing you'll do is celebrate, maybe even all by

A confession: I stopped writing fiction for two months recently--the first time I have ever stumbled to a complete halt. Why? The usual reasons: 1.

It's tempting to believe that novelists who have already published books know “the secret.” But every novel, whether it's your first or

Last weekend, I participated on two different author panels during the 2016 Newburyport Literary Festival, an event packed with

I've been writing fiction for many years now. Each book poses new stumbling blocks. Inevitably, though, the question that always plagues me

I write emotional family mysteries, the sort of fiction where the characters suffer through freakin' horrible crises: