One night last year, I sat in our blisteringly hot non-air-conditioned apartment during the hottest summer ever recorded in Portland...

Long ago, in a land far far away, my now-husband and I were young college students flirting with the idea of taking our casual friendship a ...

Today I have the incredible privilege of sharing a chat with Shari Green, author of the debut middle grade novel-in-verse ROOT BEER CANDY...

Every time I get ready to dive back into a draft of a book a round of edits after feedback, I feel slightly paralyzed. Maybe you've f...

Here we are, writers, in our final post in this descriptive writing 101 series! And I've saved one of the most important—but also, i...

Let me preface this post by saying that I'm a little bit intimidated by addressing this particular topic, only because my brilliant f...

Any lover of lush prose will tell you: There is no more valuable tool in a descriptive writer's box than a well-placed metaphor. Goo...