Agent Courtney

Here's a post from Rachelle Gardner with four tips for writing a fast first draft.  I suspect my biggest struggles are going to be not...

I'm writing this on Monday, from my West Coast home, while the East Coast hunkers down waiting for Hurricane Sandy. Hang in there and st...

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it...

I almost never talk about it here, but I am a total nerd about craft stuff-- most recently quilting. I read a lot of quilt blogs, which I re...

Here's a lovely, thoughtful article from the Horn Book on the pros and cons of "reading up," i.e. when a precocious reader g...

We're up to 22 comments on last week's post about lies writers tell themselves-- only three more comments to go before we hit the m...

So we talked about NaNoWriMo a lot here last year-- but I admitted publicly then that I've never actually participated, myself! Well, ...