There’s a golden rule in writing, one so taken for granted that people often don’t even talk about it. It’s simple: never, ever, ever, ever, ever respond to a negative review. Ever. I mean, you can if you really want to. No one is going to ARREST you if you do. But you are going [...]

Has it really been THREE WEEKS since I blogged last?
But soft . . . I should explain where I have been. Or rather, where I AM, for I am still there, in the place where I am. I am in England. I’ve been here since the 24th of June. I come here a lot, [...]

Megan asks: How do you manage to come up with an idea and stick with it throughout an entire novel . . . Also, I was wondering how you were able to continue with your novels without getting bored with them or without quitting half way through one? I know a lot of people who [...]

Every year around this time, I get loads of notes asking me if I am doing NaNoWriMo. (That’s National Novel Writing Month, if you’ve never heard of it. It’s where people set themselves the task of writing a 50,000 word novel between November 1st and midnight November 30th.)
I usually say that NaNoWriMo is kind of [...]

In reading through the comments on my last post, I saw this:
anonymous said…Maureen — I was wondering how you get to be just an author (with no day job) who lives a fabulous life between NYC and London?? Economic crisis aside, don’t you have to be JK Rowling to do that? Is it all because [...]

Friends, I am getting very bored of saying, “I told you so.” First ABBA, now this.
Today, four newspapers reported that many people were stung by jellyfish during the New York City Triathlon. Specifically, Lion’s Mane jellyfish, which can be up to eight feet in the body, and have been known to have tentacles [...]

Here’s the problem with having a contest in which the only task is to finish the sentence, “MJ should send me Suite Scarlett because . . .” I read all of the entries. Three times. And there are a lot of them. And they are all really good. I learned that a lot of you [...]