I am so grateful to Ursula Maxwell-Lewis/SiWC.ca for this photo she took of me at the Surrey International Writer’s Conference. She managed to capture the booth before the sign fell down and me before I came down with my daughter’s going away present: a fever that left me looking like a truck ran over me. To see more pictures of the conference, be sure to check out their website...and yes, I’ve already scheduled to go back next year.
Ursula…thank you. Ursula takes wonderful photos.
I never thought I’d actually start a blog. I mean, I’ve written articles for the internet…but a blog just seems so…self-serving. Self-promoting. A friend once compared it to having people read your diary. How…horrifying. Someone recently asked me, "Are you allergic to money?" Having never been exposed to it in large doses, I’d have to…
In December 2008, I signed the Agile Manifesto. Agile development refers to a process of designing software that is customer-focused and favors results over process. There is a lot more to it. Read the principles if you are interested. The key points are responding rapidly to an ever-changing environment while keeping in mind the customer’s…
Let’s talk characters. No, not the kind that make up type-face, the kind that drive our character-driven plots. I prefer to use a Dossier file-type to save character information. You can create a new dossier in many ways. The easiest is to go to the Create menu on the main window and choose “new Dossier”….
One of my customers launched a new website this month. Alicia McCalla’s site didn’t just go live, it exploded onto the net. She’s already seen more than 5 times the normal traffic I see for a new website, and the site is only 2 weeks old. Why? What’s the secret of her success? Part of…
There’s a hole in the bucket. When I work with writers on their marketing, everyone has a firm opinion about newsletters. Many authors come to me aggressively denying their need for a newsletter. “You can’t make me do one!” Others say they know they need one, but they don’t know how to start. I’ve watched…
My husband sent me a quote: “Who is more irrational: a man who believes in a God he doesn’t see or a man who is offended by a God he doesn’t believe in?” – Brad Stine That said, yeah, this is one of those posts. If you’re offended by talk of Creationism, you should probably…
