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The Incredible Weirdness of Being a Writer

I went on a writing retreat recently. Nothing fancy; this wasn't one of those places where you're in a cabin in the mountains and people

I am no fiction virgin. I have published six novels to date—one on my own, and five with Penguin Random House. Yet, until recently, I have never felt

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

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

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

I published my newest novel, Haven Lake, in April, and I have another book scheduled for publication in October. Yesterday, I started a new

There is always a point, about 250 pages into writing a novel, where I want to set fire to it. I have done that in the past.

“I crossed out 'Tuesday' because later you say it's Wednesday.” “She's fifty-nine here and fifty-eight on page 102. Which

I just turned in my synopsis to my editor for the next novel, and truthfully? By the end I felt like I did at Girl Scout camp, when they used to have