Revising Your Novel

The Art of Revising a Book

Recently, I stayed in an Airbnb where someone had tied the top tissues of all of the Kleenex boxes into bows. My first instinct was to laugh because

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

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

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:

This past week, I launched my fifth novel, Chance Harbor, provoking a friend to exclaim, “Wow, you're popping out books like Tic Tacs,