The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
COVER REVEAL: The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs
It’s already popped up on Amazon, IndieBound, Goodreads, and the usual bookish places, so let’s make it official. Here it is – the cover of my next novel. It hits bookstores on September 8, 2015. I hope you’re as thrilled with the cover as I am.
Read MoreThe best way to stop a novelist dead in his tracks
Want to know what will stop a novelist from finishing the final tweaks of his manuscript? His five year-old daughter teaching his two year-old son how to tell bad knock knock jokes. It’s the worst.
Read More“Where do you get your ideas?” is an understandable but impossible-to-answer question for authors. But “Nuns at Scout camp” will be one of my answers someday.
I’m often asked where I get my ideas for books, which is an understandable but impossible question to answer. There is no well of ideas. There is no secret formula. There is no one answer to that question, as much as fledgling writers seem to want there to be. Simply put, I hear something. I…
Read MoreResolution update: May 2013
In an effort to hold myself accountable, I post the progress of my yearly goals at the end of each month on this blog. The following are the results through May. 1. Don’t die. I remain perfect on my most important goal. 2. Lose ten pounds. I gained a pound. Three pounds down. Seven pounds…
Read MoreDone.
When my wife doesn’t like something I’ve written, she tilts her head, squints her eyes and rereads, as if doing so will make it look better. I fear that look. I despise that look. But it also forces me to do things like rewrite the last two chapters of my current manuscript, thus changing the…
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