Category: Authors

This morning, while not watching the inauguration, I’m doing the Un-American: Readying my next manuscript for submission. This is a good thing for the following reasons: Once I turn on the telly, I’ll stay in front of it until someone calls me away. This could take hours. The “readying” process consists mainly of double-spacing my

Revisions may not be the most fun part of writing for most people, because let’s face it — there’s lots of highlight-and-delete, and that can be depressing. And it’s even a little sad to have someone whose opinion you trust say “Um, that stinks.” But I have to say, revising is refreshing to me.  I

*I eat too fast. I’m somehow sure the next bite will taste better than this one. *I read too fast. I almost always have to reread a good book.  *I make hot breakfast every school day, including but not limited to: muffins, German Pancakes, whole-wheat pancakes (that everyone but Scott likes, and he’ll eat them),

I’ve been pounding out some backstory and setting up the setting for my next project. It’s more prewriting than I’ve done before, and it’s pretty fun. I’m getting set up with a lot of characters (major and minor) who have motivations and desires. This will surely help me when I come upon those pesky plot

I’m proud to be able to report that it is now more than a week since I have had any sugar! Okay, that is not totally true. I’m eating fruit, and that’s practically all sugar. But I haven’t had any of the white crystalline kind, or even the white powdered kind, since sometime late December. 

So I went and looked at my shelves at a bookstore. My shelves. Several shelves. All mine. Someone is thinking positive, because there are lots and lots of copies of my book on shelves in Deseret Book Stores. And the book hasn’t officially come out yet! In February, hopefully there will be a whole lot

This morning, I finished another draft of the new book. It has no title. But it does have characters, and a story line. Very fun for me. So now I send it to readers (most of whom are also writers) to give me advice and feedback on how to make it good. That’s fun, too.

There’s some serious sadness going on in our house right now, let me tell you. We were supposed to go to Washington to spend the week between Christmas and New Year’s with my sister and her family. (Don’t tell any of the other cousins, but these are kind of the favorites.) We packed carefully, even