Discover how to avoid or at least manage the bite of the rattlesnake in your writing career … The venom of rejection could maim – if not kill – your love of writing, or of ever being creative in any way again. To help other unsuspecting authors from suffering a similar fate, I write about how …

Spring Clean Your Home Office
What do you think about when spring is here? Spring cleaning – aargh!! And how about having to spring clean your home office and all those piles of papers you’ve been meaning to get to? I know, I know . . . believe me, I know! I hate cleaning of any sort, especially sorting through …
Desperately Seeking Sanity
Inspiration for Writing Mums When my one-year-old honey-bunch stares soulfully into my bleary eyes, I swear there’s a conspiracy between her and the writing gods never to let me pen another word. At least not until she’s safely at preschool, by which time I suspect my brain may be permanently scrambled in ga-ga-goo-goo land. I’m …
Ann Richards’ Take on Writing Style
Guest Blog Ann Richards is one of Tanya’s critique partners and long time friends. Writing hot steamy romances under the pseudonym Anya Delvay, Ann also regularly contributes to trade magazines on the love of writing, and constantly improving the craft. Tanya is honored to call her a friend as well as critique partner. Even being separated …