How To Make Your Own Success. Step One: Define It
carriejonesbooks One time at a huge book-industry event, Book Expo America, my editor brought me to my signing booth and the line for people was the longest it had ever been…
2018
Buckeye Balls of Easy Land
FULL DISCLOSURE: I am not a baker. I’m more of a cook. Shaun legitimately just said to me today, “I’ve never seen anyone cook like you. You’re so good.” And…
People Laugh At Me. All the time. Writing and Structure and MINI Coopers and Big Packages
Sometimes you have to be flexible. All my adult life I had wanted a MINI Cooper and I totally got one in 2009, which was awesome and amazing. The MINI…
A Story Is About More than Mechanics and Grammar. Dogs are Smarter Than People Podcast.
Too often we really focus only on the mechanics of story. Writers and student-writers are told to make perfect sentences, understand the use of the semi-colon, and to spell words…
Being Evil is a Waste of Time
I was talking to my daughter Em recently about how she was at a Wal-Mart in Georgia and a woman dropped some stuff and how Em helped the woman pick…