Last year was my first adventure with National Novel Writing Month after rejecting it the year before. I’m glad I participated once, but I don’t think I’ll ever do it again. With that in mind, here are five reasons to do NaNoWriMo and five reasons not to. 5 Reasons To Do NaNoWriMo 1) It’s a …
by Rainbow Rowell I’m now almost all caught up on the Rainbow Rowell books. I just have Landline to go before she comes out with another one. I read Eleanor & Park first and that was so adorable that it was really hard to live up to the level of expectation that it set. Then I read …
Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 5 by Rick Riordan This is my favorite of the Percy Jackson books. It’s mostly fighting and only minimal amounts of Percy being a dumb teenage boy. I recognize that, when your protagonist is a teenager, there are going to have to be some things that they don’t understand, …
The Key to Building an Audience, Selling More Books, and Finding Success as an Author by Chuck Sambuchino The title of this book is pretty self-explanatory. Every writer these days needs this thing called a “platform”: a way for your readers to find you. Or, depending on how you look at it, a way for …