Nikki Loftin

Okay, so I’m not really one of those people who gives stuff up for Lent. I think one year I tried to give up chocolate and lasted for about three days. Since I’m not certain it’s the thought that counts when it comes to Lenten Promises, and I never want to tick off the Big [...]

Well, I have a thousand things to do — revisions to plan, manuscripts to finish, lunches to pack, and many, many glasses of wine to drink — so it must be time for a blog post.
I promised a post on writing groups, but I’m mostly planning on telling you what I’ve got going on right [...]

I can’t help it. I must post this for all my procrastinating writer friends who might have, in a very dark period of their lives, read a few thousand Regency romances. (Unlike me, Heavens forfend! I only ever read the classics in their original languages, no matter how much angst or ennui I suffered as [...]

Hiya, Peeps! Not much to report this week, besides writing like my life depends on it. (Does it? A good question.) So, instead of coming up with something witty and fabulous to say, I will help you blow a couple of hours at a writerly site. Check this out. Authors tell you how to pronounce [...]

For a writer, there’s nothing like that feeling you get when you’ve been to a really great conference, and you come home fizzy and full of ideas, encouragement from your peers, and potential writerly awesomeness.
I just got home from the Best Conference Ever. (Um, the conference was Austin SCBWI, driving distance from my house, so [...]