Fiction author Robin Brande talks about writing, reading, and other vital matters

I love this recent blog post from Dean Wesley Smith, part of his Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing series. I love this because it goes to the heart of what we love to write and love to read.
Don’t follow the crowd! Write like yourself! Can’t say that often enough.
Read the post, [...]

Last night we stumbled out of the wilderness after our eighth day of backpacking, and all I could fantasize about were a shower, bouncy hair, a salad, and more toilet paper, please, since I had just run out with that last pee in the pines.
But aside from the grunge factor, MAN I love getting away [...]

I’m on vacation. Which means I hike for miles and miles every day, sometimes go out backpacking for days at a time, and then, like yesterday, come back into civilization to take a long, hot shower and find some great coffee. Not that any coffee I can drink in the tent while wrapped [...]

I’ve linked to a lot of segments of best-selling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s Freelancer’s Survival Guide, and I hope you’ve been following along. This week’s installment is the final one, and I love, love, love it. Kris expresses so much of my own feelings and those of my writer pals’. We do [...]

So much valuable information in this one long post by my teacher Dean Wesley Smith. Take your time to savor it, to test it against your own resistance, and to consider whether you’ve been hanging on to some myths that might be hurting your writing and your writing career.
Enjoy!

Can’t say enough about how great this series by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is. The latest installment of her Freelancer’s Survival Guide: Emergencies. So much great information in there. Thank you, Kris!

These past several months I’ve been linking to a great series by award-winning author Kristine Kathryn Rusch called The Freelancer’s Survival Guide. If you haven’t kept up with those posts, please do yourself the favor of going back through her index and reading as much of the series as you can. If you [...]

THANK YOU, MICHIGAN LIBRARIANS!!! I just found out that FAT CAT was named one of the Honor Books for this year’s Michigan Library Association’s Thumbs Up Award for Best Young Adult Fiction.
How thrilled am I??
I NEED BIGGER CAPS!!!!!!!
Thank you, Thumbs Up Committee Members. I am so very honored!!!

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Very powerful post from Kristine Kathryn Rusch about the current rush to self-publish, and whether it’s good in the long term (and short term) for a writer’s skills and career. With all the hubbub lately about authors going straight to self-publishing their own e-books, you might want to consider Kris’s very compelling counterpoints.
And for [...]

We all have that sense of who our “people” are. Those people who are passionate about the same weird or lofty things we are. The people who get giddily excited about hashing out details and visions of things that maybe most everyone else thinks is silly or impossible.
For example, I love talking [...]