Throughout a writer’s career, she must suffer the doubts of numerous critics, both inside and out.  Will her writing group understand the new chapter?  Will this work be good enough to pick up an agent?  Will his editor appreciate the revisions?  Will readers be satisfied with the latest installment of the series?  Will Kirkus reviews finally [...]

In previous blogs on this site, I’ve talked about Ninc activities and member benefits such as the annual Ninc conference (blog date 07/26); our exceptional monthly publication, Nink (08/02); the Ninc Legal Fund (08/22); Ninclink (09/29); and Ninc.com (10/27). While that’s already quite a lot, given our modest annual dues (see “Join Ninc” on Ninc.com [...]

With all the shopping and kitchen prep for Thanksgiving dinner (seventeen of us will dine today, none of them my kids, sigh), with work and with the flurry of emails in a recipe exchange among writer friends and others — my brain turned into a turkey’s and I forgot to write and post this blog last night.  Lucky [...]

Before I get started, I’d like to say Happy Thanksgiving to all you Americans, from a Canadian who celebrated our Thanksgiving a month ago. I hope you all have a wonderful day with family and friends. Maybe this is kind of a strange topic for a day of thanksgiving, but I want to talk about [...]