• Dec 2, 2019
FLASH FICTION CHALLENGE!

What happens when you go to a holiday party and someone asks, “How’s the writing going?” Do you cringe because you’ve been too busy searching online for gifts or hard-to-find ingredients, or decorating ugly sweaters? It can be difficult to find time to write during this season.

  • Nov 28, 2019
Five Tips to Hush Up Your Internal Editor So You Can NaNoWriMo

Yes. I totally used “NaNoWriMo” as a verb. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is “National Novel Writing Month.” It’s when writers voluntarily torture themselves during the month of November as they attempt to write 50,000 words in thirty days. Did you know that Like Water for Elephants and The Night Circus both began as NaNoWriMo projects?

  • Nov 21, 2019
Confessions of a Sensitivity Reader

You have a great book. You have written an awesome book. And so it happens that you have written, let’s say, a transgender character. They might be the protagonist, or their friend, their lover, their sibling… but you are not trans yourself. You have done research: you’ve read trans activists; you’ve watched them on YouTube, Instagram, or Twitter; you are slightly aware of trans rights are in your area.

  • Nov 6, 2019
Spotlight: Katie DeGilio

Welcome to the Salt and Sage Books Spotlight series! We believe that by honoring each other’s voices, we’re able to turn creativity into community, and change the world through story. In this spotlight series, we welcome you into our creative community by inviting you to meet our editors and expert readers, and to hear a little of their own story, in their own words.

  • Oct 23, 2019
You've Finished a Book!....Now What?

You’ve finished a book! Congratulations! That is a major accomplishment. Take a moment to celebrate! We’ll even do a victory dance with you. *happy dancing* Now what? For most writers, the logical next step is to find an editor. Here are two questions writers often ask when looking for an editor: