Author of the international bestsellers The Postmistress of Paris, The Last Train to London, and 6 other novels
You may recall that when last you saw our fearless hero (me!), she'd had the bad judgment to send her editor a revised draft of The Four Ms. Bradwells on …
[Read more...] about The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 3: Why I LOVE my Editor
In Part 1 of this little series, "Manuscript Puberty," I shared the experience of sending a first draft of my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, to my editor, …
I just got my first peek at the likely cover for my new novel, The Four Ms. Bradwells, along with a description of what the book is about. The two together got …
[Read more...] about The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Part 1: Manuscript Puberty
The history of my writing starts with a little brown lunch bag. Like the character of Linda in my novel, The Wednesday Sisters, my first writing teacher—at a …
[Read more...] about 2,000 Words or 2:00, and Writing Friends
This photo of the decidedly undaunting St. Martin's slush pile (the bottom shelf), which Frances Dinklespiel posted about on her wonderful blog, Ghost Word, got …
How does one discuss a book in 140 characters or less? I just came across an announcement of a publisher establishing a Twitter Book Club to help spread the …
