GUYS. COOL NEWS HERE. This year I’m writing a Viking series with Pauline Creeden. I’m already working on the first book. It’s going to be a trilogy, though really, I’m visualizing more of a series. We’ll see what happens. We’ll probably have a May publication date for the first one, …
Every writer has a different list of writing books, but these are some of my favorites. I’ve left out a bunch — I’ve read so many writing books over the years — but heck, I can always write more of these writing book roundups later on. Janet Burroway. Writing Fiction: …
Newsletter up! — Looking for book reviews for Butterfly Chaos — Rose to the Occasion will be free from Monday-Wednesday — Lots of promos — Plus a chicken video.
In Butterfly Chaos and my other novel, What You Can’t Take Back, I have some big tornadoes tearing through my hometown in northwest Missouri. I used to be super-scared of tornadoes and thunderstorms, but now I love them. The kicker is, I’ve never seen a tornado. I’d sure like to …
Here’s a chapter from Wandering Stars, the second of the White Oak Chronicles (but it can also be read as a stand-alone book). Thorn’s one of my favorite characters, to be honest. He’s the chieftain of the White Oak tribe, now leading them from their destroyed home to a new …
In 1995, I sent out my first novel and got my first rejection. I was a bright-eyed college student of 25 years, just married, and a writing hotshot. I read a lot of classic literature and I’d been churning out stories since grade school. “You must want to enough,” Phyllis …
I’m keeping pretty well ahead of the game for Nanowrimo (National Novel Writing Month, which happens every year in November — authors all over the world aim to write 50,000 words between November 1 and November 30). I’m averaging over 2,000 words a day, which is kind of an amazing …
All you gardeners, grab your free ebook of Perennial Classics: Planting and Growing Great Perennial Gardens. (How do you like the new cover? I just redid all the Easy-Growing Gardening Series covers last week — still need to fix the paperback versions, though.) Perennials are the backbone of the garden …
Here’s a crazy story. The Chieftain and Outlander’s Scar are kind of the same story, except there’s a world of difference between them. I worked on The Chieftain from 1993 until 1996. I sent the finished novel to publishers and got a bunch of rejections. I finally moved on to …
I get a nice interview over here at Dreal’s Literature Blog. Stop by and take a look! “Don’t let the industry professionals make you lose faith in yourself. You are better than they say.” https://drealsliterature.blogspot.com/2017/10/melinda-r-cordell.html
