Sarah J. Schmitt

I was chatting with Amalie Howard, author of the Alpha Goddess and The Riven Chronicles, and we started joking around about starting a Truth or Dare with some of the authors we know... kind of a way to let the readers get to know us a little about the writers we love. But I thought it might be fun to start with the readers and issue them a DARE. Yes, that's right. You don't have a choice. (Except you really do, but you have to keep reading. So here is today's #YATruthOrDare:

I don't normally do book reviews on my blog. There are a lot of reasons. First, just because I didn't like a book doesn't mean it's not good. I would hate to be even a speed bump on the road of someone finding the book that connects them to reading. Second, I work in this industry. I attend conferences with some amazing authors. And the internet can be a cruel place, especially at two in the morning when you're contemplating if you're really just a hack writer who got lucky o

As I mentioned yesterday, it's #CampNaNoWriMo time and between prepping the team I'm coaching for our local Battle of the Books later this week, packing for RT and that whole trying to work on a novel thing, I don't have a whole lot of time for blogging. Plus, I'm kicking off a new interactive project this Thursday called #YATruthorDare and this should post is meant to inspire some of you to take part in it. I love the instagram pics where readers pose the books they're readi

In case you don't follow everything writing online, in November, there is this little thing called National Novel Writing Month where writers from around the world try to pen 50K new words of a novel in just 30 days. I am a huge fan of NaNoWriMo. In fact, It's A Wonderful Death was a 2012 success story with the first draft, all 63K words, written in 23 days. (We won't talk about the months of edits that I endured to get it ready for submission.) But not everyone is ready to t