Hello friends, I'm writing a quick note on Monday morning from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany where we're having a wonderful time on our book tour with Francke, our German publisher.   I'm with friends Lynn Austin and Elizabeth Musser and we're spending our days laughing hysterically while trying not to be too "American." Essentially an impossible feat for us. The first night on … [Read more...]

The first time I attended a writers’ conference I found out that the novel I’d just written was totally wrong. Plotting, characters, pacing . . . all wrong. The professional editor who taught the course also evaluated the writing sample I’d sent, and by the end of my critique session, I felt like he’d put my manuscript through a paper shredder. After my wounded pride healed, I spent the next year … [Read more...]

Summer has reached the Wade house!  Boy, we really limped and crawled our way through those final few weeks of the school year.  Last Wednesday I had nothing to pack in my son's lunch except almonds and potato chips.  His Highness had to make an emergency mercy trip to the grocery store, then dash to the school to add a few more items to his lunchbox. Somehow, some way, I got my manuscript … [Read more...]