by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 15, 2023 | About Writing, The Craft of Writing
I’ve always been a writer who outlines. I got a lot better at it once I worked in Hollywood and learned how to “break a story”. For an in-depth look at how that works check out my blog post called How I Plot. Point being, I’m a bit of a dinosaur, I like to outline the way I was taught in LaLa Land using either a white board and different colored pens or a cork board 4×6 cards and different colored pens. However, many of the programs I use have added plotting...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog
I seem to be unable to cook with any degree of skill. So rather than actually eat anything sensible I listened to opera. In particular my favorite soprano in all the world, Kathleen Battle. So now all of you get to listen to opera too if you are so...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jan 6, 2023 | Blog
Okay, I have definitive news, the fifth and final book in the Imperials series will be published on January 15, 2023. It’s been a long journey with an unfortunate hiccup in the middle when my first publisher decided to cancel the series after the third book. I was committed to these characters and this universe I had created, and thanks to the terrific people at Prince of Cats Literary Productions I was able to complete the series. I also want to thank the unbelievably talented Elizabeth...
by Melinda Snodgrass | Jun 26, 2022 | Blog
I keep seeing Tweets about how voting doesn’t matter. Voting doesn’t cut it. What’s the point? Look, the system is rigged, no doubt about that, allowing for minority rule, but it can be overcome with sheer numbers & there are more of us than there are of them. And I never see a suggestion about what to do in lieu of voting. So, what’s the alternative? Guns? Blood in the streets? Stars forbid we end up there, and there is still a chance to avoid that outcome —...
by Melinda Snodgrass | May 30, 2022 | Blog
So for months I have been inundated by these emails through my website with random people offering to up the traffic to my site. (yeah, I know I’ve been terrible about updating this site, all the other social media is eating me alive) Anyway, they all have this little “What’s Up?” tag so I have taken to just deleting them as spam. And then today I actually looked at one of them and it turned out to be an actual question. So if anyone has sent me an email and I...
