Writer Tips

From Writer's Relief staff: It’s hard to be patient when you’ve sent out a query letter and still haven’t heard back from your literary age...

From Writer's Relief Chances are that you’ve technically been writing since you learned to write the alphabet on goofy, oversized lined paper bac...

This season, while promoting my fourth novel, I was asked about certain "truisms of the trade" that are frequently served up as gospel for writers. But how true are they, really? Upon reflection I have to say--not very.

Regardless, to actually live the life of the writer requires writing -- the actual thing itself, the literal activity of putting words together on a page.

From Writer's Relief staff: Although it seems that the majority of writers who land a literary agent take the traditional approach of writing and s...

I recently interviewed Sandy Powell, Director of Balboa Press, who talks to many struggling writers at conferences around the world. Her advice can best be summed up in this list.