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Jan/Feb 08
  • “Guidelines Gone Wild”
  • The Value of Children's Authors Having Personal Websites
  • How Shall We Submit: An Examination of Submission Guidelines
  • Feedback: Pros and Cons of Self-Publishing
  • Self-Publishing: A Road to Nowhere
  • A Matter of Tone
  • Meeting Your Goals with a Critique Group
  • Book Review: The Right Way to Write, Publish and Sell Your Book by Patricia L. Fry
  • Strangers: A Writer's Greatest Resource
  • Writer's Christmas Carol

  • Nov/Dec 07
    • “Writer As Salesperson”
    • Editors and All That
    • "Cutting" into the Markets
    • To Publish or Self-Publish -- Is That the Question?
    • Selling A Cool Book about the House that Joy Built
    • Cuss, Curse, or Clean It Up: Profanity in Young Adult Fiction
    • Hints for Traveling Authors and Illustrators
    • How to Write Like an "Expert"
    • A Writer's e-Mail Addiction
    • Why I Write

    • Sept/Oct 07
      • “Spontaneous Writing: Plan, Outline Revise -- Or Not”
      • Fleshing Out Minor Characters
      • Opportunities Missed Are Sales Lost
      • "Threes" in Writing
      • In Praise of Literary Contests
      • There's Elements of Style and Then There's Jack Kerouac
      • Using Your Moods as a Writer
      • Writing a Non-Boring Family History
      • Protect Your Writing from Plagiarism!
      • Definitions of a Writer

      • Jul/Aug 07
        • “The Freelance Blues”
        • Create Real Characters
        • Turning to Crime Writing
        • A Gripe About Contests and Prizes
        • One Minute Marketing
        • 7 Reasons Why Your Novel Needs a Book Proposal
        • Arcane Language - Don't Use It
        • In Praise of the Form Rejection
        • On Self-Publishing
        • I Am Unavailable: Answering Machine Messages

        • May/June 07
          • “Write What You See”
          • Taking a Serious Look at the Novel: A Book Review
          • Outlining: The Indispensable Tool
          • Lessons from my Book Launch
          • Ten Tips to a Smooth(er) Interview
          • Get Out of Your Basement
          • Stepping Stones for Writers
          • Creating a Book Cover
          • Satisfying the Urge to Write
          • Health Off - Write On

          • Mar/Apr 07
            • “The Class System of Writing”
            • Reflections of an Unapologetic Short Former
            • Super Savvy Internet Promotion
            • To Pay or Not To Pay for Ads, Part 2
            • Grants Are Golden
            • Using Rejection
            • High Art and Low Art
            • Marketing Heartache
            • Researching the Markets
            • Sinfully Agitated Blond

            • Jan/Feb 07
              • “Figuratively Speaking”
              • Are You Blocking Your Publishing Success?
              • Righting the Rewrite
              • Picture Book Evolution
              • Writing Success -- Your Way
              • To Pay or Not To Pay for Ads
              • Don't Mess with the IRS
              • Things Editors Hate
              • Book Review: Baby Beat Generation & The 2nd San Francisco Renaissance
              • The 99¢ Lesson

              • Nov/Dec 06
                • “The Sound of Writing”
                • POV for Everyone
                • Developing a Winning Nonfiction Book Proposal
                • The Evolution of a Children's Book
                • Relax -- Write It Your Way
                • Does Spelling Count?
                • Book Review: Writing in Retirement
                • The End of the Publishing Rainbow
                • What To Do if You Don't Have Clips
                • As Few Words as Possible
                Sep/Oct 06
                • “Proofreading: A Writer's Bane”
                • Secrets of Striking Media Gold with Blogs
                • Poetry Improves Writing Skills Pt. 2
                • Characters and Point of View in Kid Lit
                • Take the Bull by the Horns or Get Gored Trying
                • Parade Your Professional Persona
                • Children's Books For and About Disabilities
                • The Deciding Factor on Characters
                • Why Rewrite?
                • Fretting the Mason/Dixon Line
                Jul/Aug 06
                • “The Blank Screen: Brain Freeze”
                • Picture Books with Rhyme
                • How to Get Book Reviews (No, Really!)
                • Reaching International Markets Electronically
                • Pig Finds Home
                • Example of a Bad Query Letter
                • Be a Groupie
                • Advice for the Beginner
                • Poetry Improves Writing Skills Pt. 1
                • Ten Commandments for Writers
                May/June 06
                • “The Writer's Game: Guess What Publishers Want”
                • 7 Media Myths that Will Kill Your Campaign
                • Why Write Poetry Reviews?
                • How to Turn First Experiences into First Sales
                • The Value of an Author's Voice
                • Book Review: A Writer's First Aid Kit
                • How to Train Your Publisher and Survive
                • Eliminating Lazy Writing
                • Independent Author/Publisher
                • How NOT to Get Published
                Mar/Apr 06
                • “The Query Letter: Overrated, Obsolete?”
                • Hug Your Local Journalists
                • A Dozen Unique Ways to Make More Money Writing
                • Book Review: The Fiction Writer's Silent Partner
                • Turn Personal Struggles into Books for Children
                • Q & A on Publishers
                • Rendezvous: The Writer's Date
                • Can I Sell a Previously Published Article?
                • Connecting with Other Writers
                • From Reader to Teacher to Writer
                Jan/Feb 2006
                • “Too Many Words”
                • 10 Surefire Ways to Get Your Book Proposal Rejected
                • But What I Meant Was...
                • Finding Sample Magazines without Breaking the Bank
                • Current Trends in Kid Lit
                • Children's Book Agents I Have Known
                • Maximizing Your Book's Earning Potential
                • On Writing, On Ideas
                • If You Want to Write for Money, Write Ransom Notes
                • Make Them Laugh; They Won't Notice They're Learning
                Nov/Dec 2005
                • “Hyper-Inspiration: A Writer's Malady”
                • Introduction to Agents
                • A Common Pitfall: Expository Dialogue
                • Business + Writer = Author
                • Story of a Bestseller: The Power of a Postcard
                • A Writerly Walk
                • Real Writers Don't Quit
                • Dumb is Good
                • Organization is Key to Writing Poetry
                • The Ten Writer's Commandments
                Sept/Oct 2005
                • “Writers: A Mysterious Demographic”
                • Building Relationships All the Way to the Bank
                • Editors One to Six
                • Tips for Writing Mysteries for Kids
                • Book Review: Order in the Court
                • The Media Needs YOU
                • Writing to Learn
                • Writers and Day Jobs
                • Taking the Next Step in Your Plot
                • What You Mean What I Mean?
                July/Aug 2005
                • “Experience Wanted”
                • Make Your Picture Book Sparkle
                • True Wit: Picking and Placing Our Words
                • Get Your Foot in the Door: Advantages of Networking
                • Accosted by the Rank Amateur
                • Book Review: A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak
                • Uncluttering the Muse
                • Writing Most Fowl
                • Children's Literature For and About Disability
                • 2 Yeas and 4 Nays
                May/June 2005
                • “The Writer as Human Being”
                • Point, Shoot, Write! Using Technology to Create Real Characters
                • Be on Radio Tomorrow Pt. 2
                • Make Each Project Worth More
                • Conflict in Fiction: Keep Your Promises
                • Living Hope for the Rejected
                • Turning Media Mistake into Media Goodies
                • Great Fiction Comes from Writing Lightly
                • Book Review: Writer's Market FAQs
                • The Dreaded Block
                Mar/Apr 2005
                • “What Are You Selling?”
                • Money: Make a Plan!
                • Be on Radio Tomorrow Pt. 1
                • How to Get Book Publicity
                • Write Powerful Endings
                • Take Advantage of Your Writing Group
                • Writing: A Very Strange Form of Intimacy
                • Word Watchers
                • The Rationale of a Writer
                • Phrases that Need to be Retired Permanently
                Jan/Feb 2005
                • “When Words Collide: Bad Writing”
                • Eliminate Passive Writing
                • How to Name Your Book
                • Flashbacks and Other Techniques
                • Turn Lemons into Marketing Lemonade
                • Step-by-Step: A Picture Book is Illustrated
                • Book Review: How to Write Funny
                • The Call of the Writer
                • Finding Your Inner Nut Case
                • Playing Before Writing
                Nov/Dec 2004
                • “Fail Your Way to Publication”
                • The Self-Publishing Experience
                • More on Setting Freelance Rates
                • Courting Premium Sales
                • An Author's Perks
                • Will Strunk and Others I Have Loved
                • 10 Reasons Not To Become a Writer
                • Working with Cause and Effect in Kid Lit
                • Readers' Humorous Similes
                • Rules That Are Meant to Be Broken
                Sept/Oct 2004
                • “Similes and Metaphors: The Good, The Bad, and the Truly Awful”
                • How to Set Freelance Rates
                • Inconsistencies in Writing
                • Blast Through Your Writer's Block of Choice
                • Book Promotion: Crossover Publicity
                • Writing Great Beginnings for Kids
                • Road Map for the Writer's Journey
                • Thoughts on Titles
                • Magic Writing
                • The Muse and Fortune Cookies
                July/Aug 2004
                • “Writing for Money: Cash Cow or Cruel Hoax?”
                • When Non-Paying Markets Don't Pay
                • Writing for the Health and Fitness Market
                • Why Illustrators and Writers Are Kept Apart
                • Show-Don't-Tell Debate
                • Be A More Polished Professional
                • Writing About Controversial Subjects for Kids
                • Creating Scenes and Stories
                • Journal Toward a Creative Center
                • Buck Up, Me Laddies
                May/June 2004
                • “Writing for Nothing: The Despicable Non-Paying Market”
                • Make an Editor Your Best Friend
                • Typing vs Typesetting
                • Breaking into the Juvenile Market as Writer-for-Hire
                • Tell, Don't Show! Heresy?
                • World-Building in Sci-Fi Writing
                • Goal-Buddies: The Power of Two
                • Promote Your Book and Do a Good Deed!
                • Marketing Dead-Ends
                • What IS a Poem?
                March/April 2004
                • "One Space or Two? Changing the Rules"
                • Keep Editors Wanting More
                • Making Your Fiction Stand Out to Editors
                • Hip Today, Hokey Tomorrow
                • Tips for Freelancing Parents
                • Disaster Plan for Writers
                • Marrying Illustrations with Words
                • Writing for the Despicable Non-Paying Market
                • Two Cents' Worth: The Single-Space Debate
                • Rejection Inspiration
                Jan/Feb 2004
                • "What Do Publishers Want? Beats Me!"
                • Three Most Important Things Publishers Want
                • Fine-Trim Your Prose
                • Accidental Advertising
                • Secrets to Sloughing Off Writers' Stress
                • Words and Pictures: Book Illustration
                • Baby Makes Three in Writing Triangle
                • Mining Your Ideas
                • Book Review: Making Money Freelance Writing
                • Release Your Inner Editor
                Nov/Dec 2003
                • "A Book by Any Other Name Would Not Sell as Much"
                • Make a Pre-Publication Marketing Plan
                • Keeping It Real in Fiction
                • After-Publication Revision
                • What Makes a Good Agent?
                • Writing with Eyes Closed
                • Empower Your Creativity with Goal Setting
                • Need Material? Write Your Memories!
                • The Weekend Writer's Task List
                • From Thinking to Writing
                Sept/Oct 2003
                • "Feeding The Muse"
                • Three Best Ways to Find an Agent
                • Cliches: Avoid Like the Plague
                • Boost Your Bottom Line: Make More Money Writing
                • Courting the Muse
                • Do Computers Equal Less Work?
                • I'm a Query Addict
                • The Power of Thank-You
                • Apostrophe Nightmares
                • Feedback, Nasty e-Mail, and Words to Retire
                July/Aug 2003
                • "The Truth About Writers"
                • Three Most Important People to Show Your Manuscript
                • Stay Computer Current!
                • Reinventing Yourself
                • Tone and Firm Your Sagging Middle
                • Dumb Stuff in Print
                • The Metaphysical Market: New Age Niche
                • Getting the Urge to Write
                • Celebrity Endorsements
                • Parent As Editor-in-Chief
                May/June 2003
                • “The Weird, Wonderful World of Querying”
                • Beat the Odds with Writing Contests
                • Narrow Your Non-Fiction
                • Pay to be Published?
                • Planning an Exceptional Book Signing Part 2
                • The Three Most Important Things in a Query Letter
                • Clips vs. Conscience
                • Rejection Art
                • Pay for Your Trip: Write a Travel Article
                • It’s Fun to be Funny
                Mar/April 2003
                • “Being A Writer”
                • Writing for a Newspaper
                • Should Writers Fear File-Sharing?
                • How to Write for Children’s Magazines
                • I Write, Therefore I Am
                • Planning an Exceptional Book Signing Part 1
                • Why Keep On Writing?
                • Search and Destroy: Tackling Office Paper
                • Writing and the Centered Self
                • Don’t You Ever Work?
                Jan/Feb 2003
                • “How to Sink a Submission”
                • Snagging Clients: 10 Ways to Pick Up Paying Assignments
                • Format Logic Part 3
                • Attending Writing Conferences
                • How to Develop Characters
                • Pitching Books with e-Queries
                • Book Review: Words: A Connoisseur’s Collection...
                • Everything I Know about Writing I Learned from My Dogs
                • Punctuation Helps Communication
                • Slings and Arrows of Getting Published
                Nov/Dec 2002
                • “Self-Promotion: Shameless and Otherwise”
                • Five-Alarm Self-Promotion
                • “The Writer at Work” Cartoon
                • Pan For Gold: Rewrite!
                • Format Logic Part 2
                • Professionalism
                • The Psycho Economics of Writing
                • Goal Setting for Writers
                • Review of Two Writer’s Digest Books
                • Sleep Well, Ernest Hemingway
                Sept/Oct 2002
                • “Manuscript Horror Stories: Submissions from the Dark Side”
                • Circulating Manuscripts (Submission Impossible)
                • Manuscript: Lost in the Ozone
                • Will a Literary Agent Make the Ride Smoother?
                • Format Logic Part I
                • Writing for Others--A Way to Get Started
                • The S-Curve of the Writing Life
                • Cooking Up a Mystery
                • Patience is a Virtue I Need NOW!
                • Oh, To Be A Fortune Foldout
                July/Aug 2002
                • Two-Year Anniversary: "The Generosity of Writers"
                • Make a Writing Plan
                • What Is an Editor For?
                • Essential Elements of a Good Book Review
                • What Do Poets Do for a Living?
                • My Favorite Mystery
                • Cutting the Clutter
                • Interview: Focusing on Collaboration
                • Start a LIST Club
                • To Be or Not To Be Honest
                May/June 2002
                • “Writing: The Glamour Life”
                • Day in the Life of a Full-Time Writer
                • Burned by an Agent
                • Finding the Write Group for You
                • The Interview from Hell
                • Future of the Publishing Biz?
                • How NOT to Keep Track of Your Poems
                • Today’s Alternative Writing
                • Things Only Writer-Friends Understand
                • Distractions and Writers Who Love Them
                Mar/Apr 2002
                • “Back to Basics: Nuts and Bolts of Writing”
                • The Elements of Style in 31 Steps (humor)
                • Start an Online Worldwide Writer’s Workshop
                • Risky Writing
                • Book Review: Idiom Savant--Slang As It Is Slung
                • Catch That Poetry Idea
                • Four Steps to Achieving Writing/Family Balance
                • Elements of the Breakout Novel
                • Interview with Scavenger’s Editor Janet Fox
                • Filling the Dumpster with your Down-In-The-Dumps
                Jan/Feb 2002
                • “Good Information and a Sense of Humor”
                • Writing Funny
                • Online Critique Groups
                • The Battle for e-Book Rights
                • Characters, Movement, Plot
                • Everything I Know About Writing I Learned from Disney Movies
                • How to (Not) Lead a Workshop
                • Talking Animals
                • The Southern Writer
                • Memoir Writing
                Nov/Dec 2001
                • “Give the People What They Want”
                • Staying Inspired
                • The Scoop on Online Classes
                • Print-On-Demand Rebuttals
                • Cures for the Clipless
                • We’re All Poets
                • Going Pro: First Sale
                • Agent: How to Get One
                • Fifteen Minutes to Write
                • Parody: What Is It? Why Write It?
                Sept/Oct 2001
                • "Invasion of the POD People"
                • Brave New World of On-Line Publishing
                • POD Cautions
                • Freelancer as Entrepreneur
                • Making Research Work
                • How To Write Lyrics
                • I Write Confession Stories
                • It’s A Bunny-Eat-Bunny World (Book Review)
                • Giving Up the REAL Job
                • The Published Wannabe
                July/Aug 2001
                • "What I Learned After a Year of Editing WW"
                • Don’t Count Your Publishing Chickens Before They’re Hatched
                • Basic Steps of Interviewing
                • Dangerous Myths and Terrible Truths of Kids’ Writing
                • Become A Review Writer
                • Obsessive-Compulsive Manuscript Tracking
                • We’re All Poets
                • On First Joining a Critique Group
                • Punctuate? Why Should We?
                • Words To Watch Out For
                May/June 2001
                • “In Pursuit of Rejection”
                • How I Turned Rejection into Publication
                • World's Worst Rejection Lines
                • You Automatically Own Your Copyright?
                • Online Promotion for Non-Fiction eBooks
                • Children’s Books: To Rhyme or Not To Rhyme
                • Write What You Don’t Know
                • Reading Guidelines Get Sales
                • School Visit: Long Distance Learning Lab
                March/April 2001
                • “Blind Optimism or Brutal Reality?”
                • Rebuttals to Brutal Facts of Publishing
                • Writing Fillers for Kids’ Mags
                • Get the Most from Your Integrated Program Suite
                • Food Writing: Becoming the Restaurant Critic
                • When All Else Fails -- Quit
                • Obsessed with Writing-Books
                • A Writer’s Geography
                • What To Do Until You Become a Best Seller
                Jan/Feb 2001
                • “Natural Born Writers?”
                • Can Creative Writing Be Taught?
                • The Brutal Facts of Publishing
                • Successful Self-Promotion
                • Corporate America Needs Freelancers
                • Science Writing
                • Picture Books for Kids -- Easy? Hah!
                • Getting Published: A Cautionary Tale
                • Walking for Inspiration
                Nov/Dec 2000
                • “Wannabephobia”
                • So What Makes A REAL Writer?
                • I’m My Own Evil Twin
                • Writer’s Block
                • Successful Speaking and Book-Signing
                • Writing Poems For Kids
                • Plagiarism and Copyright
                • Character-Building Group Exercise
                • Multiple Markets from One Idea
                Sept/Oct 2000
                • “Who ARE You People?”
                • The Dreaded Wannabe
                • Where Do You Get Ideas for Books?
                • Starting with Short Stories
                • Sense of Smell in Writing and Culture
                • International Syndication: An Alternative
                • Be Careful What You Wish For
                • What’s In A Character’s Name?
                • Book Review: Rules For The Dance
                July/Aug 2000
                • “Welcome Back To Working Writer!” (premiere issue)
                • Who is This Editor and What Is Deartracks?
                • Ten Myths for the Modern Writer
                • Writing Crime Fiction
                • Drop the Excuses and Write!
                • Save Money with SASEs
                • The Lost Art of Letter Writing
                • Rhyme and Rhythm in Poetry
                • Author Without an Agent
                • Plus My Very First Nasty E-Mail and more!