FRESH VOICES WRITING CONTEST [box type=”shadow” align=”” class=”” width=””]UPDATE: 10/27/15 – Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas has committed to read a full…
October 1, 2015
[author title=”Michelle Medlock Adams” image=”https://www.almostanauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Michelle_2966.jpg”]Michelle Medlock Adams is an award-winning journalist and best-selling author, earning top honors from the…
October 1, 2015
You might be asking what you actually submit to a publisher when you submit a picture book manuscript. I…
September 30, 2015
Hi new friends. My name is Dina Sleiman. In addition to being a published author myself, I’m an acquisitions…
September 28, 2015
We rarely know what someone else is going through. People don’t usually wear signs announcing their need. Do you…
September 27, 2015
Can’t you give me brains?” asked the Scarecrow. “You don’t need them. You are learning something every day. A…
September 26, 2015
by Alycia W. Morales When I started reading the Divergent series by Veronica Roth, friends were conflicted over the…
September 25, 2015
Do you ever feel like “just a writer?” “Just” a wannabe author? “Just” a wordsmith who spends hours inventing…
September 24, 2015
The world of book publishing has been changing rapidly for a few years, and lots of vocabulary is changing…
September 23, 2015
Jesus Christ described the incredible power of one. Studying for a sermon series recently called The Power of One,…
September 22, 2015
“Great travel writing consists of equal parts curiosity, vulnerability and vocabulary. It is not a terrain for know-it-alls or…
September 22, 2015
Over the summer, I got my biggest freelance contract ever. It’s contract work for an educational company, so my name isn’t…
September 21, 2015
We all sometimes wonder why we write. Nagging doubts and questions invade our minds: “No one wants to read…
September 20, 2015
We all sometimes wonder why we write. Nagging doubts and questions invade our minds: “No one wants to read…
September 19, 2015
What’s wrong with this sentence? Me and Cam finished the Army Ten-Miler. Me should be I, right? Easy. Most…
September 18, 2015
When I first heard the phrase, “Query letter” I was confused and embarrassed. I did not know what a…
September 18, 2015
Let’s take a look at the layout of Picture Books. Most books, including picture books are produced in pages…
September 17, 2015
Andrew McCarthy, guest editor of The Best American Travel Writing 2015, says that the best travel writing is “the…
September 16, 2015
“The sky looks ever so deep when you lay down on your back in the moonshine; I never knowed…
September 15, 2015
Do your characters sometimes refuse to cooperate in the middle of a scene? Why is that? You know your…
September 14, 2015
At a writer’s conference, a contest judge once shared with me that he could pick my voice out of…
September 13, 2015
As a Christian writer I imagine you are like me and are driven with an overwhelming conviction and fire…
September 12, 2015
[author title=”Connie Wohlford” image=”https://www.almostanauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/14-Connie-photo.jpg”]As a follower of Jesus Christ and one who’s deeply in love with the Word of…
September 11, 2015
You paced around the house all day doing unnecessary chores. You read an article on writing. You rearranged stuff on…
September 11, 2015
Last month I introduced the concept of rhetorical devices. We started with a couple familiar devices that students of…
September 10, 2015