How to Write a Novel

How to Write Historical Fiction: It Will Take More Time than You Ever Dreamed Possible

I hated history class in high school. All of those boring dates and dead people, blah blah blah. I memorized what I needed to, then took the

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.

I came downstairs just as my husband returned from our local liquor store, where he'd gone to buy wine for dinner. He brandished a bottle of rum at

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

If you eavesdrop on a conversation between writers, it's easy to mistake talk about craft for something else. Marathons, maybe. “I had

My dad was a Navy officer, yet he was sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas when I was eleven years old. Yes, Kansas: not exactly a seafaring

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

The most important thing every writer has to do is take a leap of faith. What does that mean, exactly? That, no matter how stuck you are at the