Endings are important. I don’t know who said it first or more eloquently than me, but it goes something like this: If you end each chapter well, people will keep reading your book. If you end your book well, people will read your next book.
 
So, for the final author in Author Crush Month, I could [...]

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My author crush on Jennifer Lyon began soon after I met her. Not only was she a regularly publishing author, but at the time she was also a co-president of the RWA chapter I had just joined. Both friendly and professional, Jen seemed to know how to balance the real work of an author – [...]

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We are in for a treat today. My kids and I are big fans of Michael Buckley. I should say my kids are fans, but I have an author crush. Michael writes the popular The Sister’s Grimm series. Last summer I checked out the audio version of the first book The Fairy-Tale Detectives from our [...]

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My author crush on Janet Scott Batchler began in 1999 when she and her husband Lee taught one of the classes in my screenwriting program. That was hands-down the best writing class I have ever taken! (And I’ve taken some good ones!) Since then, I’ve come to know Jan as a fellow writer and a [...]

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Janet is one of my oldest online friends, that growing number people whom I’ve only ever met online. I met her at least 6 or 7 years ago (a long time in Internet-land) on one of the writing loops we belong to. She’s a real go-getter. She has self-published more books than I can [...]

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We are halfway through Author Crush month here at Routines for Writers. Our guest today is Mitali Perkins who writes YA“ books between cultures.” When I emailed Mitali to ask her to blog today, I told her that I wished her books were around when I was a teen. They are exactly the kind of [...]

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This week I want to tell you about my author crush on James Scott Bell. I met Jim when he was teaching at a writer’s conference, and we hit it off. Turned out we had mutual friends, we stayed in touch, we taught at more of the same writer’s conferences, and became friends. Then he [...]

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         What?!? No Author Crush blog today?
         That’s right. Pitiful me wasn’t able to convince my favorite authors to come blog with me. Something about being too busy writing. Imagine!
         So I’ll chat with you about my favorite authors. My first exposure to [...]

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I have an author crush on Angela Hunt. She is a writer’s writer. In an age where “platform” seems to be everywhere, she gets away with writing just about anything she wants. Her tag line is to “expect the unexpected.” How great is that? So if you look up her kazillion books online you can [...]

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One of the things I love most about Kathleen is her ability to ask you questions about your book until it’s either much better, or you want to scream because you don’t know the answers yet! And she’s got great idea starters on her blog that really get my creativity racing. I also love how [...]

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