Writing and Editing with Latitude

Bringing latitude to writing and editing means seeing both big picture and detail more clearly.

What Makes a Book Memorable?

Books that keep us reading, past our bedtime or our subway stop, are the ones that stay with us long after we’ve finished.

Outlining the next project may help me get to The End, or it may be a complete failure. Only one way to find out.

Why querying brought back a college classroom.

Lessons learned after twelve months of intensive story-telling—both fiction and fact.

Big dreams must be broken down into small steps before we can actually make them happen.

The more I write, the more convinced I am that revision is where the real magic happens.

Fiction with a large dose of salt tastes best to me.

Characters often come and go as I get distracted by other things. How then do they maintain such consistency in their smallest quirks?

Effective leadership and writing a story both require sticking to the plot.