Tag: fiction
member name: Krystal R.
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February 09, 2008 02:22 AM EST --
My nephew is turning three in a couple months and absolutely loves trains, and I was thinking about writing a little personalized story about him riding a train, illustrating it, and printing off a copy . . .
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April 15, 2008 03:57 PM EDT --
I'm getting ready to self-publish my children's book Horace the Tortoise--which many at the Writer's Nook may be familiar with!--and now that I've started speaking with illustrators, . . .
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February 25, 2008 08:26 PM EST --
I was exposed to this quote (attributed to Tom Hanks) sometime around the Apollo 13/Saving Private Ryan/Cast Away era. It has given me something to think about everytime I sit down to tell a story. . . .
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January 03, 2008 04:33 PM EST --
Hi everyone,
My birthday is coming up in about three weeks, and I usually get a Borders or a Barnes and Noble gift card. I'm thinking about checking out some new or different fantasy/romance/sci-fi . . .
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August 29, 2007 02:08 PM EDT --
I noticed a problem in my writer's group that I think several writers come up against every time they create a new character: giving that character a name he or she can live by, an unusual name that . . .
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August 30, 2007 01:46 AM EDT --
When I'm creating a new character, no matter what genre I'm writing in, I like to start with the name. Names carry a lot of baggage, and it's not so much the way a name sounds but how . . .
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January 06, 2008 07:24 AM EST --
Can you guess what Mitchell originally planned to name her heroine?
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May 07, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
As an avid reader and someone preparing to self-publish her first book, I was a little dismayed by this recent article in the NY Times . It raises two issues: one aimed more at my bank account, the other . . .
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April 18, 2008 03:11 PM EDT --
Does anyone know where I can find information on the success of self-published children's books? I realize that there's going to be a large margin--after all, it's not just how much the . . .
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