Our words have weight. That’s something that I didn’t often think about when I started my writing career.  I was far more concerned with the story, of getting the characters and the plot and the action down in a way that will make the act of reading an enjoyable one than I was with the [...]

Welcome industry guest Tamela Hancock Murray, an agent with Hartline Literary Agency and the author of numerous published books. Tell us about your agency and yourself. I live in Northern Virginia with my awesome husband of 24 years. We have been blessed with two beautiful daughters. I like to say I have the best clients [...]

I finally got around to watching Miss Potter (the movie about Beatrix Potter, author of those wonderful children’s stories that I’m sure we’ve all enjoyed). Being a romantic at heart, I enjoyed the love, pathos, and happy ending. Being a writer in today’s world, I thought, “Oh my gosh, is this what it used to [...]

I’m an HGTV junkie. I admit it. I find the shows oddly relaxing. And what I learned from them probably assisted me in getting a contract on my home in five days in 2007, even as the market was slip-sliding away. (Though the past six months of doing projects in my new home has taught [...]