Critiques and Cultivating Self-Awareness

I’ve written about critiquing and revising several times before. There’s a reason for that—in the last two years, I’ve personally had to come to terms with how critiquing works, how it feels, what I should take from it, and what role it plays in an author’s career....

Pitch Wars MSWL: M.K. England and Jamie Pacton (YA)

We are YA co-mentors M.K. England and Jamie Pacton. We’re Pitch Wars 2015 alums turned agented authors, and we’re here for all your YA submissions! We are smart. We are funny. We read all the things. We will make you work, but you will have a better book by the end....

Plotting Resources

I recently gave a short(…ish) presentation about plotting techniques for the teen writing group at my library and figured, hey, I spent time putting all this together, may as well share it with the world wide interwebs, too. Look, I make no secret of the fact...

Twitter Basics for Writers

(This is about two months overdue, so sorry, y’all, but I got there eventually.) One of my last acts as a founder and co-leader of the Atlantic County Writers Group in New Jersey was to lead a workshop right before I moved away. We had a great group attend Twitter...