Make-a-Fan Monday: Working Partners

 
Today I’m making you a fan of…Working Partners, Ltd.
What is Working Partners? Recently, the company seems to have blossomed into an umbrella for several different companies. But, I first learned of Working Partners as a children’s fiction book packager. You might be wondering what the heck a book packager is. Well, essentially, a publisher may [...]

New Blog Schedule

I haven’t blogged for an entire week! That’s the longest I’ve gone without posting and yes, it makes me sad. But I’ve been putting in honest work, I swear. One bit of work has been blog pondering. Yes, blog pondering.
When Fumbling with Fiction first began, I had a schedule that I kept to. Those were [...]

Author Interview: Heather Hollick, Pendragon’s Banner

Camelot is less a romantic kingdom than a lusty and fragmented realm in this spirited retelling of Arthurian legend, the second novel in Hollick’s trilogy. Over the years, Arthur Pendragon and Gwenhwyfar have accumulated a vast array of estranged relatives, rivals and half-mad adversaries. Among the most formidable of their enemies are Winifred, Arthur’s embittered [...]

First Line Followup

Man, there is a lot of love for Jane Austen out there, huh? She seems to have the first line to end all first lines. But my favorite line actually comes from Ingrid Law’s Savvy. It goes:
“When my brother Fish turned Thirteen, we moved to the deepest part of inland because of the hurricane and, [...]

Review in Questions: God is an Englishman by R. F. Delderfield

This bestselling novel set in the ruthless world of Victorian commerce follows the fortunes of Adam Swann, a scion of an Army family and veteran of campaigns in the Crimea and in India, in his quest to found his own financial dynasty. His struggle to succeed and his conquest of Henrietta, the spirited daughter of [...]

Personal Development for the Purposeful Writer

Frequenting writing forums I notice that there are various types of aspiring authors. There are some writers who you know aren’t quite there yet, but are working so hard at listening to those more experienced and at learning. Whenever I run into those, I feel like I am certain they will make it. Then, there [...]

My Dog Ate My Homework

My last post (below), got deleted somehow as you can see. Not sure how that happened. Somewhere between pushing “Publish” and viewing the page, it disappeared. It took me a long time, too! So now I’m very angry and sad and mad at wordpress. And y’all will be stuck with a short easy post about….hmmm….thoughts [...]

Rock of Love: Literary Edition

Beta Reader Remix

Hey, So I promised that I would compile a list of comments my beta readers and CP to share in case they might be of help to anyone out there evaluating their own manuscript. It’s amazing how we writers tend to make a lot of the same mistakes. Or! Even better it  might give you [...]

Story of Rejection

For awhile now, I’ve had a lifelong goal of reading every Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Sadly, I’ve read very few. But, hey, I’ve got time. It’s just that darn Norman Mailer and his gazillion page Executioner’s Song that keeps standing in my way. So, in an attempt to move forward, I decided I would allow [...]