Okay, so today is the Transcend (by Christine Fonseca) masquerade blogfest, and Christine's asked us to reveal a secret. You can sign up...

Okay, one of my favorite books of 2011 was CLARITY by Kim Harrington. I love the sleuth girl novels, what can I say? (You've read THE LI...

So there seems to be many, many options for publishing these days. You can take your novel and publish it in several places online (and in p...

I made this as part of my keynote for last week. I think it's something we can definitely apply to writing. Because you have a del...

Okay, so I wrote that line into a keynote address I gave over the weekend. I talked about working through hard things in life--and writing--...

Okay, so I realize this week might be bordering on wow, what's wrong with Elana? Ha! I swear I don't mean it to be. I chose some emo...

So we're taking a break from all the emotional onslaught that's been going on this week to talk about a particularly amazing book. S...

Dude, I am so very tired today. I feel like I've been chasing that hope smoke we talked about earlier this week, and it's leading me...

Okay, so continuing down our characterization lane, today I want to talk a little bit about gratitude. I want to thank everyone who partic...

Okay, so this week, the SURRENDER blog tour is going down character lane. I hope you'll keep up with the tour (remember the whole schedu...

So this week has been the Never Surrender blogfest. I have read so many amazing and inspirational posts that have helped me to feel less alo...

Okay, so I'm still a huge fan of everything dystopian. So when Precious asked me to participate in her Dystopian Domination 3, I jumped ...

Dude, okay, so today author Kristi Cook and I are running a little thingy on Twitter. From 4 PM - 10 PM EST time , we'll be tweeting wit...

Okay, so this was something that started last month, and I was so swamped with the sheer act of breathing I didn't participate. Not to s...

Okay, so I'm here to tell you about an amazing author--Amanda Ashby--with two, that's right TWO, books out this month! This is a new...