writers conferences

How good is your first page?

Page One is probably the most important page of your manuscript. It’s so important that we’ve given Page One its own room at the Field’s End Writers’ Conference this year.

April 18, 2007

Give it a shot (you know you want to).

“I’ve always wanted to write a novel…” I hear this a lot. It comes as no surprise to me because I truly believe everyone has a story to tell. But

April 16, 2007

Swashbuckling 101

Elsa Watson is proof that you can have a gentle soul, a rapier wit and a fierce intelligence all at once. Could be it’s that degree in Classics from Carleton, combined

April 12, 2007

The Nigerian banking scam is working well for me.

[Real quick – Alison Kent was nice enough to have me as her guest blogger today. Check it out.] In my endless quest to make less work for myself, I

April 9, 2007

"Moth-breath" and "wedding-cake face"

You know who she is, that angsty girl who stayed up late and cried a lot and lived a deep inner life all through high school. She kept journals and

April 8, 2007

Not just another pretty face

Mrs. Larson and the Constant Flow of Thoughtful Books or, Meet Garth Stein at the Field’s End Writers’ Conference, April 28, 2007. Garth Stein has published books, created documentary films, written

March 27, 2007

"The meeting of two personalities…"

C.G. Jung wrote that “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” PLEASE NOTE: The Seattle Writers’

March 24, 2007

From Lawyer to Liar

A conversation (and apologies for the above headline, which I couldn’t resist) with bestselling author Robert Dugoni: Although he’s been a lawyer for nearly twenty years, Robert Dugoni has been

February 28, 2007

Field’s End presents a one-day writers’ conference at the legendary Kiana Lodge on Saturday, April 28, 2007. Owned and operated by the Suquamish Tribe, in whose language “kiana” means “garden of the gods,”

February 22, 2007

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