One of the many wonderful things about books is the varied ways readers can enjoy them.   Not only to read, or listen, but some even make it to the visual medium of the big or small screen. In my home, we enjoy all of the formats.  I’ll read anything with writing on it, be it [...]

There’s this great scene in J. R. R. Tolkein’s The Hobbit where Bilbo is exchanging riddles with Gollum.  It’s Gollum’s turn, and once again, he has delivered a long, rich, poetic monologue–and Bilbo is stumped.  Gollum comes to eat him, as is their bargain, and Bilbo starts asking for more time.  He is so frightened [...]

  (Tara Taylor Quinn and Kelly Chapman) So here we are, stop four on The Chapman Files International Blog Tour.  We’re heading to Canada and Australia over the next few months, stopping in with the Australian Romance Reader Association blog, and stopping in England, too.  Kelly Chapman (for those of you who don’t know Kelly is the expert [...]

AGENTS IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL PUBLISHING By Laurie McLean, Larsen Pomada Literary Agents To steal a line from my colleague Michael Larsen’s playbook, now is the absolute best time ever to be a writer. This is something I truly believe. The opportunities for writers to get their work published are more varied and numerous [...]