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
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I published my newest novel, Haven Lake, in April, and I have another book scheduled for publication in October. Yesterday, I started a new
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What’s So Hard about Writing a Novel? Everything.
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.
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We all have mornings like the one I had today: making breakfast, using the cattle prod to get kids off to school, kitchen
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Whether you're a self-published writer or published by a traditional house, the word on the street is the same: Blog like your life depends on it if
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