Thank you to Writer Advice for posting my article on its “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” blog

I was honored to have an article I wrote about the creation of my first book published yesterday on the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” blog found on the Writer Advice website. My article, titled “What Happens When an Author Responds to a Fanboy Email,” describes how author Diana Helmuth inspired my book.

Writer Advice (www.writeradvice.com) is the brainchild of Lynn Goodwin, another excellent writer with whom I’ve been lucky enough to correspond recently. Through her website, Lynn provides excellent free or inexpensive resources for new and aspiring writers. Among those are seasonal contests where writers can hone their craft and compete for the opportunity to be published for minimal submission fees.

For example, I submitted a piece in February for the recent Flash Memoir Contest, which cost me a whopping $5. Although I was not a finalist, I received excellent, friendly (and priceless) feedback from Lynn. She is truly out to help new and aspiring authors; apparently she’s cut from the same cloth as Diana and Sandra Friend. Lynn’s next Flash Fiction contest opens this Friday and closes on June 2nd, and I encourage any of you who love to write to submit (I will).

She is also an excellent author herself. I highly recommend her new book, Disrupted, an excellent coming-of-age story about how a group of high school theater students unite to save their production and help their neighbors after a series of earthquakes devastates their community. Because I tend to read only nonfiction, this was the first work of fiction I’ve read since law school, and I could not put it down.

Thank you, Lynn!