This blog is going quiet for a couple of weeks for obvious reasons. Not that Thailand celebrates Christmas, but our family does, as do the 7...

Every aspiring author, at some point, wishes someone would tell us how to do query letters right. Just tell me what to write, and I'll w...

I read a lot of Dr. Seuss (9 kids will do that to you), to the point where I've caught myself thinking about the story behind the story,...

STAGE 1: Idea I'll write a book about time travel! Nobody's done that well yet. STAGE 2: World-building I wonder if I should rel...

I'm nearing the end of The Great Air Pirates YA Revision of 2010, and I discovered something. For years now, I thought I outlined becau...

It's important to choose your protagonist carefully. In general, they should be the character whose choices and actions move the plot fo...