by Susanne | Oct 18, 2017 | Publishing business, Writing life
Whatever your theory about dreams—that they clear out the garbage in your mind, that they foretell the future, that they reveal great mystical secrets of your psyche—dreams have power. For me, their greatest potency is in helping me identify what’s really going...
by Susanne | Oct 15, 2017 | Editing, Publishing business, Writing craft, Writing life
That was a phrase from Jamie Ford’s advice to writers, which I linked to in an earlier post. The metaphor—meaning going back to something you wrote long ago and revising it and shining it up thinking even though it didn’t sell then, it might sell now—I...
by Susanne | Oct 3, 2017 | Publishing business, Writing life
I’m fortunate to live in a great community where there are many serious writers. One of them is Jane Yolen, inspiring, hard-working, award-winning author of books for children and young adults. She posted the following on Facebook this morning, and it is such a...
