How to Make People Keep Reading
carriejonesbooks I’m about to revise a lot of my own stories and in the next couple of months, I’m going to see if I can figure out how to self publish…
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There is Evil Out There And We All Need to Fight It
Real life can be more cruel than books. It’s a hard truth. Us writers often hear from editors, “Can you make the villain more understandable?” We often hear, “Nobody would…
The Poet Who Saw Me – Wednesday Writing Wisdom
When I was a kid at Bates College, I spent a lot of my time feeling like less. My family had been kind of poor after my step-father died. My…
Children Shouldn’t Be Lost
I am currently involved with this quote and I’m trying to think about how Zara (the main character in my NEED series) would react to it. “It is not the…
My Nana’s Funeral Was Awful – Seriously Awful
Because my family is a bit – um – all over the place, I ended up having multiple grandmothers when I was growing up. I had a Nana, a Grammy,…