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

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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I hope that you, my fellow published and aspiring writers, really do see your writing life as a business. You are the president, the CEO, the principal player, the monarch (in some of your cases)–call yourself what you will.
You could choose to just let things happen. To not take yourselves seriously. To [...]

Excellent new installment in Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s continuing series, the Freelancer’s Survival Guide. This week, it’s more on negotiation–including understanding the basics of the contracts you sign.
Remember, as Kris Rusch and her husband Dean Wesley Smith drill into our heads at the workshops they teach: “No one will ever care about your career [...]

Actually, these posts by Kristine Kathryn Rusch are for writers and other freelancers, but I assume other freelancers are reading other blogs, so we’ll just stick to the writer part of these.
Check out Kris’s latest post, on overcoming emotional setbacks. Do you see yourself in some of those examples? I sure do.
Makes you [...]

You know I love to pass these along. Here’s another great one from Kristine Kathryn Rusch.
And if you’ve missed any in her series, go back and read. It’s a great education for writers wanting to understand more about the business side of our business.
Enjoy!

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I really loved this post from Christina Dodd, celebrating her 40th book in 18 1/2 years. Great going, Christina!
A lot of great career wisdom in there–especially in all her #1s. Take a look.

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Patience. If you’re like me, you need it, want it, and yet find it so hard to maintain.
Here’s a great post by author, teacher, mentor Kristine Kathryn Rusch about writers and patience. When you’re done with this essay, go back and read all the other ones in her Freelancer’s Guide to Survival. [...]

Hi! You thought I was in the wilderness, didn’t you? I’m in between wildernesses at the moment–we’re hiking and driving our way northward so it’s not just endless days in the car. But we’ve finally passed into Wyoming, where bigger wilderness awaits.
Anyway. Wanted to take a moment to give you all [...]

Another excellent post from multiple award-winning novelist and short story author Kristine Kathryn Rusch about the business side of writing. This week’s installment, how to get paid.
And if you haven’t read the previous installments yet, take the time to catch up on the whole collection. For those of you who want to making [...]

Actually, so much of the writing life is fun–researching topics you’re interested in; spending day after day in Fictionland while you ignore the rest of the noisy, demanding world; writing characters you want to be or want to fall in love with or at least want to hang out with for as long as you [...]