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How to spell Hanaka/Chanuka/Hannukah

"Do you write books sequentially?" A writing tip.

Trauma: "I don’t remember."

Promo Tip: Facebook ads

Publishing tip: a fresh way to approach comps

Longlisted for Millennium Book Award 2024

Tips for outlining your book.

Book Review: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

Alle interviewed: Sober Coffee podcast

Writers need to know: "Which social media should I focus on?"

Free writing tip: "My literary fiction is morphing into a thriller."

New Facebook Group: Reading and Writing Trauma

Free writing tip: "My first draft is too short!"

Publishing Tip: One-Page Synopsis

We have two weeks left, Americans.

Alle teaching "Build to a Book Deal: Refine Your Submission Process."

More about editing: two readers' questions.

Writing Tip: When an editor changes your work too much.

Have something personal to express and would prefer to do so in fiction?

Winner of Nancy Pearl Award:

The Nancy Pearl Award announced this Saturday, Sept. 21st - Alle a finalist

Writing question in an interview: "Besides writing and telling a good story, do you have any other talents?"

How can we be healthy if we are morally and ethically unstable?

Publishing tip: the benchmark number of copies sold to render the book "a success."

Alle's fall teaching schedule.

Free writing tip: "How much description is too much?"

One category win, one finalist position, two nominations, and one great review.

Publishing Tip: The "Short Story" Edition

"Can't find a primary relationship": Two readers share deep pain.

Alle celebrates "We Love Memoirs Day" and ... Keanu Reeves?

Alle answers a reader's question: "I want to publish a memoir. How?"

A nod from Harborview Abuse & Trauma Center

Writing Tip: Finding an illustrator for a children's picture book

Publishing Tip: Submitting a memoir: Book proposal? Chapters?

Alle fails at "Hot Mess."

Publishing Tip: Use rejections to greater your chances of publication.

Professional women: Who says "Yes ..." when you want to say, "No!"

A reader asks: "When triggered, how do you rid yourself of that feeling?"

"Hats off to the author for tackling the subject of child sexual abuse with such respect and dignity."

Audiobook edits: A reader asks, "How picky did you get?"

Proud Reader Photo: Satsuki from Japan

Writing Tip: A writer asks Alle, "How many words makes a good short story?"

Publishing Tip: a reader says: "I can't find comps for my query."

The follow-up to gracefully rescinding a literary agent's offer of representation.

Charlotte Pitcher Shultz asks: I focus so much on the "perfect" outline, I burn myself out.

A "strong testament" from The U.S. Review of Books

How does one gracefully rescind an offer for agent representation

Meg Pokgrass is one of the best flash writers I know, and …

May 9th: Craft Talk – WRITING HUMOR: NOT COMEDY

Alle teaching THE COOLEST CLASS at Richard Hugo House:

New essay: The Buddhism of Baseball

A writer asks Alle: "Can my novel-in-stories stand alone as shorts/a novella?"

Reader's Question: "How do you work a second draft?"

Alle interviewed for Oprah.com

It's up! Seattle's Hugo House spring classes catalogue

Writing Tip: Why is the middle of a novel always so difficult to write?

Sunday fun: a frolic of a questionnaire.

Interview question from Dr. Donna: “When do you have enough healing to write a book about it?"

Reader's Question: "What is the difference between promoting a self-published or traditional press book?"

Alle stars on podcast Story Discovery.

Reader's Question: "Two agents asked for my manuscript."

Alle's favorite reads of 2023

Literary Mama Magazine interviews Alle

Reader Question: "My husband said, 'Get a nanny,' when I asked for help with the kids." What would you do?

PUBLISHING TIP: Best number of comps.

When do you have enough recovery to write a book?

PROMO TIP: I'm not getting enough reviews of my book!

Relationships with dysfunctional family members: Alle and Dr. Donna, Part 2

I've no knowledge of Tai chi.

Publishing short work with book-deal intention:

Alle guests on Dr. Donna Bevan Lee's podcast

Manage a Flashback and Return

Trauma Survivors Can Love Themselves

30% discount on As Far as You Can Go Before You Have to Come Back