Word Nerd

It's high time that Word Nerd read another classic.* She's turning again to her faithful readers for input on which one. See that po...

Word Nerd realized last night that all the fantasy series books sitting on her floor at home in the to-be-read stack had original publicatio...

As promised a few weeks ago, this week's author is Janet Evanovich . Evanovich is the author of the Stephanie Plum series (One for the M...

Title: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (Dragonlance Chronicles, bk. 1) Author: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman Length: 369 pages Genre: fanta...

* or, How You too Can Enter a Flash Fiction contest. Jason Evans over at Clarity of Night is holding another flash fiction contest. This ti...

Remember when the 9/11 Commission Report came out... it was featured in book store displays and actually made it into the best seller list i...

After Word Nerd finished rereading "The Princess Bride" it got her thinking about other books she read the first time when she was...

Alison Pace is this week's author. She has written "If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend" and "Pug Hill." According to h...

...82,090. Yes, novel-fans, 82,090 words is the grand total for the first rough draft of Word Nerd's novel. That's shorter yes than ...

Word Nerd hit a good stride again Friday night. 2,000 more words down. Saturday afternoon may prove to be the point of no return where she h...

Ok. Here's the start of the big wordcountdown. After writing last night, here's the total: 74,200 / 85,000 (87.3%) Word Nerd's ...

*(or, Talking 'Bout my Hibernation... that sounds much less ominous) Look at the Work-in-Progress word meter over there ---> Yes. It ...

Yes. It was a book before it was a movie. Word Nerd first read the book of Princess Bride when she was in, oh, probably middle school. As a ...

The author spotlight is shining this week on debut novelist Dave Case . Case is a native mid-westerner and the author of the Out of Cabrini,...

Title: Eleven on Top Author: Janet Evanovich Length: ~350 pages Genre: chick lit/mystery Plot Basics: Hapless bounty hunter Stephanie P...

Title: Charmed Thirds Author: Megan McCafferty Length: ~350 pages Genre: chick lit Plot Basics: Jessica Darling is off to college at Co...

The end of Word Nerd's first draft of her current work in progress is now about 20K words away. 20,000 words is not small potatoes (for ...

Perhaps that old piece of writing advice -- write what you know -- is true. Or at least it is for this week's author, Elaine Viets . Vie...

Title: How to Murder a Millionaire Author: Nancy Martin Length: ~270 pages Genre: mystery/chick lit Plot Basics: Nora Blackbird's p...

Title: Pale Immortal Author: Anne Frasier Length: ~360 pages * Genre: thriller/horror Plot Basics: In the small town of Tuonela Wisc., ...