The Travelers’ Market will be available in early July. Book Signing The Bookworm Richland Parkway Sat. July 26th 1-2 pm Fantasy Map Workshop and Book Signing at Barnes and Noble, Columbia Center Mall Aug 16th, 2 pm Reserve your copies now!
School’s out and you finally have time to polish off that short story or poem. No excuses! And this contest is free for students 10-18. Click here for more information. Deadline August 15, 2008. Winners: no money, but you’ll be published!
Summer is conference season, and I’m getting ready for presentations at PNWA in Seattle and at Willamette Writers in Portland. One of the topics I’ll be presenting with my good friend Renee Riva is Scene By Scene–Writing the YA Novel. All writers have to be ruthless in evaluting whether or not their scenes move the story [...]
digression: a message that departs from the main subject Our lives are full of them. At least my life is. So today, an aside, a story about my son, some spiders and Rita. To start you must know Rita. She is an old grand dame of a car, a VW Quantum circa 1986. Her owner [...]