Dear Friends & Readers,

For the past two weeks, I’ve been deep inside someone else’s novel, a big, unwieldy, beautiful manuscript, full of talent, full of life… and completely tangled. The writer had lost her way in it and was losing her belief, not only in the novel, but in herself as a creator.

I analyzed the manuscript, pulled it apart, and found the spine. I not only showed her how to rebuild the structure seamlessly to make it more readable and saleable, but also discovered a second novel buried inside that was crying out to be written. ... Read more.