Writing – Lana Wood Johnson

In My Day — Photography

A couple weeks ago I was on my very first panel at a con and the topic was “When I was Your Age…” and we discussed what YA

Writing My Query — My Writing Processes

I’ve threatened a few times here and there that I’d write posts about my strange little processes that I’ve developed for this whole writing thing. If

On Twitter Pitching – #PitMad, #SFFpit, and beyond

So this post is a descendent many times over of the post I made after my first PitMad a little over a year ago. In that

NaNoWriMo and Anxiety

Here’s how NaNo works for me: Day 1: I make a respectable showing, but not the 1,667. I watch as what feels like everyone else posts large

Protected: Pitch Wars Mentee Bio

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

How I failed Camp NaNo without feeling like a failure

So, April was Camp NaNoWriMo. And this I participated… again. It was, in fact, the fourth time I’ve done a NaNo Project, and like the previous

Why I Write YA Fantasy

When I tell people I write I get a mixed bag of reactions, as most writers do. When I explain I write YA Fantasy people are

Protected: Fall 1st Page Critique – Blog Hop – NECESSITY

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.

The Counting Trap

I’ve fallen into a trap. Probably the first of many in my writing career. In this case, I have no one to blame but myself. I

On #PitMad and what I learned there

Yesterday I participated in #PitMad and had an incomparable learning experience as I first prepared 8 pitches, then figured out how to schedule them so I would