If you've been following our contest for long, you probably know the sad truth that I almost always  win, even though Mahon's tec...

Picture this, my friends: The year is 2007. Our heroine, a young college sophomore, has been invited to dinner and pumpkin carving with ...

Today I have the immense privilege of participating in the blog tour for Akemi Dawn Bowman's luminously incredible debut novel, Starfi...

I had an experience this afternoon that shook me, and I haven't been able to get it out of my mind. My family spent the day here work...

Today was my twenty-ninth birthday —for real. We celebrated well at my parents' house, with gorditas, five-layer Chinese bakery rai...

The second thing I do when I'm revising is to map out my story —in other words, I create a scene-by-scene or chapter-by-chapter reverse...

Revision is not something that comes naturally to me. I had written four manuscripts before I finally cracked what it means to really re...