Question of the day: My debut novel did okay, not great, and now my publisher is being slightly less than enthusiastic about my follow-up. They aren’t excited about the book I’m working on, even though I love it, and have…

Confession: I was shoulder-deep into the manuscript revision of my fourth book, which has a deadline of, oh, one week from now, when I realized I had to write this blog post. And for the life of me, I could…

So my new book, The One That I Want, has been out in the world for a month now, and just like a new parent who has realized that it’s time to take a night or two away from her…

So I know that it’s craft month here at WU, and thus, I’m going to discuss craft, but part of me shudders at the thought of opining on the subject because, well, I’ll be honest, four books into this shindig,…

I was chatting with a friend recently who was lamenting that she felt like her agent wasn’t the right fit for her, that she felt like she (my writer friend) was manning her ship on her own, and that she…

So when I asked Teri if she had any suggestions as to what I should write about this month, she jokingly suggested that I tackle how I write so quickly. I’m pretty sure this was because I’d just tweeted (are…

So, among the things I have done this morning that don’t include writing: Tweeting, Facebooking, Scrabbling, Scrambling, updating my blog, and surfing through various gossip/entertainment forums in search of…what? Distraction? Yes, distraction. The one thing that I haven’t yet done…

So I am less than four months away from the publication of my next novel, The One That I Want. There’s been major progress since my last post here at Writer Unboxed: my galleys – aka, ARCs, which are uncorrected…

If I were going to tell you one thing to do with your manuscript, it would be, when writing in first person as I do, to find your protagonist’s voice. Voice is king. Voice is, in my opinion, everything. As…

(Yes, now you can have that Billy Ocean song in your head all day too.) So the good news is that since I last blogged here on Writer Unboxed, I’ve started my next novel. Hurrah! The even better news is…

So last week, I posted the first excerpt from The One That I Want, which is out next June, up on my blog. Whoo boy was I nervous about this. You see, this book was more labor than love for…