Erin's 2021 Pitch Wars Wish List
I am so excited to participate in Pitch Wars as a middle grade mentor for 2021! Download a text-only version of my wish list here. What...
10 Things About my Mom on Mother's Day
1. She insists she was a drummer in a previous life. 2. She had the long-standing plank record at her gym. 3. She really likes the...
Conference Tips for the Introvert
Conference Tips for the Introvert You’ve signed up for a children’s writing conference. You know it’s the perfect place to recharge the...
My HUGE and GIGANTIC news.
I'm so happy to announce that my novel, Standard Operating Procedures, will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Jeannette Larson...
10 Promises When You Finish a Draft
I’m the kind of person that needs to write every day or something unravels in the writer side of my brain and I lose all creative...
10 Characters I Met While on Vacation
I always come home from vacation feeling re-inspired with new ideas and stories. We travel a lot, and often to places that are just off...
10 Reasons why EVERYONE should go to a writing retreat.
I just returned from the SCBWI Mid-Atlantic Novel Revision Retreat in beautiful Richmond, VA. As usual it was amazing - and I thought I'd...
Ten things about revision that have little to do with actual revision
1. Do the easy fixes first so that after you’ve gone through all the spelling mistakes and formatting issues, you can be like – ‘I am the...
The Spider Cricket
Something that appears in almost all of my manuscripts is some kind of terrible bug (I don't know why, really... I don't do it on...
Ten Things about the 2013 MidAtlantic SCBWI Fall Conference
1. It was SO MUCH fun! 2. There was smoked salmon and hard-boiled eggs on the breakfast table this year to get everyone proteined-up...
