
The Old-School Approach: Figuring Out What to Include in Your Book (& how to organize it)
It’s true that you can buy special software or install apps to help you determine the content and organization for your book. OR you can
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It’s true that you can buy special software or install apps to help you determine the content and organization for your book. OR you can

My journey from a xeroxed family history to a bestseller As aspiring writers register for my upcoming online memoir class, I’m asking what they’d most

A PRIEST WALKS INTO A WAFFLE HOUSE: STORIES FROM A GRITTY, GRACE-FILLED LIFE is outta here and in the hands of the publisher. It just

We came. We wrote. We laughed. And a whole lot more. For now, feast on the photos. They tell the story oh-so-well. The She Who

WOO-HOO! It’s publication day for Nothing Compares to You: What Sinead O’Connor Means to Us. So thrilled to see this review in The Sunday Times

So excited to be part of this anthology. Be sure to drop by one of these events if they’re in your neck of the woods.

Last month we gathered around a common goal: to “play bigger” as writers. To make concrete, highly-achievable plans of action that would break us out

My first book deal: 2004. Second book deal: 2007. Third book deal: 2024. Seventeen years between book deals, and I have a word for fellow

In this era of unprecedented division, hopelessness, distraction, and cynicism, we’ve lost the ability to recognize the goodness all around us. But it doesn’t have

The book proposal is in my agent’s hot little hands, and I feel 133 pages lighter! Next up: she’ll review, give feedback, and I’ll revise