Jess Walter is the author of eleven books that include a #1 New York Times best-seller (Beautiful Ruins), an Edgar Award winner (Citizen Vince), a finalist for the National Book Award (The Zero), and an NEA Big Read (The Cold Millions).…
Get Inspired and Find Your People: Attend a Writers Conference
Are you looking to expand your writing life? Your writing community? Your exposure to literary agents, editors, and publishers? Writers conferences can provide all of these potentially life-changing benefits and more.
At writers conferences members of the literary world come together to learn, educate, network, and celebrate the magic of writing.…
There’s a New Podcast in Town…
Curious About Beta Readers? Read On
I recently completed a novel that has been workshopped, revised repeatedly, and polished. Before I begin the query process or move to self-publish, I’d like some “consumer” feedback. I want to know how my story will be received by its intended audience.…
Consider an Author Website an Investment in You
You are a writer. You may not have published a long-form work, but you write and revise, you submit, you pitch. Maybe you are seeking a literary agent. Maybe you plan to self publish. Or maybe you just write and rewrite.…
Setting: Take Your Character Reinvention Story Abroad
“La vita e un viaggio. Chi viaggia vive due volte.”
Life is a journey. Those who travel live twice.
Italian proverb
Foreign settings allure and entice. They whisper of things unknown, exotic, and enriching. The Italian saying quoted above proposes a second life for traveling characters.…

