


Feel Your Way onto the Bestseller Lists
Every year for as long as I can remember, I’ve lit a candle, gotten cozy, and listed my yearly goals on pretty paper. I do this twice a year, in fact — once on my birthday in late summer, and again before midnight on New Year’s Eve. My success rate is pretty decent...
The Comparison Cure (hint: every writer needs to hear this!)
I just got through talking a client off the ledge. Let’s call her Jan. Researching comparable books for her proposal, she’d been reading the work of a current bestselling author…

Steve Jobs & Rejection
Talking with an extremely talented writer friend today, he said: “Getting rejected started to feel okay on my end after a while. At first it was super painful…

Golf, & Other Painful Ways to Avoid Writing…
I delivered a book today. The whole shebang. Been working on the final edits for a publisher around the clock for days, and I’m pooped. But smiling. It’s a GREAT feeling to cross the finish line on something this all consuming. Each time it happens, I’m still humbled...