Barbara Samuel O'Neal is the author of more than thirty award-winning novels, including THE LOST RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS and

The Secret of Everything
A native of Colorado, Barbara loves teaching, travel, reading, writing, yoga, walking, food, cooking, photography and...okay, reality television.
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I’ve been on vacation in Michigan and will be headed out to the annual RWA conference in five days, so posts have been sparse. I do have stories for you, and pics, and love (as ever), but tonight’s simple post is a link to a great website I think you’ll love, Shrinking Violets:
http://shrinkingvioletpromotions.blogspot.com/
Run by two [...]
I’ve spent the past few weeks going through the new book (formerly 100 Breakfasts now officially titled THE SECRET OF EVERYTHING). Ed and agents came back with suggestions and I had some thing I knew I wanted to smooth and fix, too.
I wish I could say I had a process I use, over and over [...]
My subject is writing pace. What’s you writing pace? Do you know?
Read the blog here: http://writerunboxed.com/2009/03/25/the-pace-of-you/
THE ART OF FICTION, by John Gardner (Click to order from the publisher)
One of my editors, very early on, recommended this slender paperback to me. It is one of the premier books on writing, and over the years, my copy has become as grimy as the Velveteen Rabbit. Instead of fur being worn way, the [...]
Come talk with me about Top Chef and the pale imitation Chopping Block at Romancing the Blog today.
Unraveling character [...]
This just in:
Bronwyn Jameson and Anne Gracie are offering a 4 week on-line romance writing course to raise money to help pay the massive hospital bills fellow author Jo Leigh is facing after her husband died of cancer earlier this year. A place in the course will cost US$100 –we are hoping to raise $1000.
The [...]
Blogging today at Writer Unboxed. Come over and chat about methods you use to notice you’ve taken a wrong turn and how to fix it.
I am offering three manuscript critiques in order to raise money for the Avon walk. I’ll read three chapters and an outline and return them with notes.
The bidding starts now and will go for seven days.
Manuscript critique #1
Manuscript critique #2
Manuscript critique #3
Again, this is a very unusual offer. I hope you’ll bid.
The work this morning was meant to be tackling the division of a long outline for a side project I’ve been working with, on and off, for awhile now. It’s non-fiction, unrelated to anything I’ve done before, and it’s never easy to charge out there with beginner’s mind and agree to fall on my [...]
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