I’d like to give a big thank you to all of the great folks who attended our workshop at RWA National Conference last week: “Creating a Web Presence in Just One Hour”!  Here is a link to our presentation in PDF format.
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I have exciting news to share! Michelle McGinnis and I were accepted to speak at the RWA National Conference in Washington, DC this summer! Our presentation will be “Creating a Web Presence in One Hour.” We’ll choose one audience member and help them build a website during the workshop using Wordpress.com. That will give us [...]

Darnit - I hate being a grown-up. But here’s the thing… I realized this last week that I was using NaNoWriMo as a procrastination technique instead of working on revisions for my manuscript #2. That is NOT a good plan and was the easy way out. So after some pep talks from those who love [...]

Folks, the insanity of National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) started yesterday. So far, my insanity level has been low because I’ve taken it easy. I had the extreme thrill (NOT) of spending Thursday night in the emergency room with a Satanic kidney stone, so I’ve been a little slow moving the last few days. But [...]

I recently participated in April Kihlstrom’s wonderful online class on the topic of “Book in a Week”. Unfortunately, during the official week of writing I was unable to participate due to some work scheduling issues. So, I started my own Week today, along with my friend Michelle. Today’s output was less than stellar, but I [...]

At my new day job several people use Twitter, so I decided to investigate it on Friday. OH MY. I’m sucked in! I set up an ‘emmaclair‘ account and now I’m rolling in the wonderful land of tweets and followers. I did a search for users with ‘romance writer’ or ‘romance author’ in their bio [...]

We have a lot of wonderful authors in our Austin RWA chapter and one of them is Julie Kenner. Today she posted her First Sale story on Dear Author and it’s a great one, so I thought I’d share. Enjoy!

Google has recently launched a new concept: Knols - little units of knowledge. The official definition from the Knol homepage: “A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.” Well, there you go!
For all of my writerly friends out there, this is good news. This is your chance to share the knowledge you’ve gleaned [...]

A fellow member of my critique group shared with us a great link from the website “Advanced Fiction Writing” by Randy Ingermanson. I love this article! Please be sure and keep reading until you get to the “About Those Pesky Rules” section. This is where it really all came together for me. I finally have [...]

This week I had one of those wonderful moments where it was clear WHY I love being a member of the Romance Writers of America. On Tuesday night at our Austin chapter meeting I was telling my friend Julia about the details of the editor appointment I had at the National Conference. Julia told me [...]