For whatever reason – illness, a move or job change, family crises, or other circumstances beyond our control – most of us fall out of the w...

Happy New Year, Everyone! I hope you're all rested and refreshed and ready to plunge ahead into 2013. While on our winter blogging b...

Congratulations to Jan Godown Annino, whose entry was chosen by the Random Number Generator to win an autographed copy of Write a Poem Step ...

  This post was supposed to be about holiday book giving....except that Hanukah ended Saturday night, and unless you live near the world...

. Howdy, Campers ~ Happy Poetry Friday! Jama's hosting Poetry Friday today at Alphabet Soup  (which is www.jamarattigan.com in ca...

Most of the adults who sign up for my writing classes have the same goal: to get a book published by a traditional publisher. They're us...

As reported in my December 5 post “ Good Ol’ Opportunity ,” in which I offered my Thumbs Up   review of Melissa Ambramovitz’s guide to w...

I used to be a regular contributor here at TeachingAuthors , but now I am a guest. In my last post , I explained my difficult decisio...

Thanks to more years on task than I’d ever imagined, I’m personally acquainted with the proverbial carrot that swings beneath our writers’ n...