by Laura Brooke Robson | Jan 5, 2020 | Archives, Life, Writing
Upon announcing a Big Fancy Book Deal™, a certified Author-In-Training starts to hear some of the same things over and over. But no oft-heard reaction perplexes me more than: Obviously, this is a very kind, if unfounded, thing to say about me. And people say it all...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Dec 10, 2019 | Archives, Reading
(I’m nailing that organic google searchability) Ah, December. The air is crisp. The Starbucks cups are red. We’re all packing our bags for our annual trip to the year 842 to celebrate the holidays with our families in the English countryside. If you’re anything like...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Dec 2, 2019 | Archives
As a certified Internet User™, I’ve seen a lot of re-spellings of the word “women” recently. Wimmin, womyn, and womxn 3Womxn, in particular, aims not just to deemphasize the suffix -man but to specifically include transgender people and people of color, which wimmin...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Nov 17, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Writing
In rewriting my book for the seventeenth time, I realized that I will go to extreme lengths to avoid certain difficult rules of grammar and syntax. I would rather rewrite the whole paragraph than choose between “It is me” and “It is I.” 9For the record, it’s “It is I”...
by Laura Brooke Robson | Sep 25, 2019 | Archives, Editing, Life, Writing
A year and a half ago, I sold my first two books to a publisher. People asked, mostly: What’s the title? Oh, awkward, we’re retitling it so I don’t know yet!What’s the cover? Oh, oops, so I won’t see the cover until closer to the release.Is it written? Yes! It’s...
