After a year of cake lessons (she is now a licensed Wilton teacher), my friend Divarat completed the superhero wedding cake for our friends wedding! The two bottom layers are…
Jane's Folly Posts
Summer is coming. No, this isn’t some weird reference to Game of Thrones. If you run a one-librarian library and have a summer reading program, that sentence can fill you…
“Sometimes you can’t make it on your own.”- U2 Help me Many books have a lengthy acknowledgement page. The author thanks his agent, his first readers, his spouse and people…
Setting Goals, Marking Deadlines and Re-evaluating I set a goal for myself to finish a rewrite of my novel-in-progress by next Saturday, so that I could have it off my…
Review of The Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick When I first started reading Chris’s self-help book for nerds, I thought, “no! he’s stolen my idea for the Gamer’s Guide for Real…
Book Review of The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler The premise of this YA book caught my attention. In 1996, a high school student uses an America…
Finding Inspiration There are times when staring at a blank page will get you nowhere. Some times you have to walk around and think, some times you have to put…
I’ve sketched out some characters for the story I’m working on.
Finding the Right Role Model Role Models are people who have done what you want to do. Picking the right one can provide you with guidance and encouragement. Picking the…
