Amy Quick Parrish

I follow Julian Lennon on Instagram and he shared a post recently that really resonated with me. "Today I learned about a term called a...

Do you dream of inheriting a bookstore in a small town in Ireland? Have you ever tried to save the local bakery that made your favorite...

Kind of a specific title, eh? Like many of us, I started out with Harry Potter -- not specifically romance, but paranormal and Scottish,...

Unprofessional cover. There's literally no reason to have a bad cover these days. There are numerous high-quality highly skilled...

Last June I splurged on a new Kindle Scribe that came a free three month trial for Kindle Unlimited. With July and August ahead of me and...

Read every day. The best writers learn from what they read. Read everything from poetry to genre fiction to award-winning writers and...

You get to escape into a new world. You get to be a young adult again! Perpetually! You get to live an exciting, daring life without...

Use the screenplay as the outline. Kick out those slug lines and turn them into sentences. Present tense? Past tense? First person, third...

The Alhambra in Granada, Spain inspired my award-winning feature screenplay, The Court of Lions. My young adult adventure/romance novel,...

You enjoy sending query letters, writing loglines and worrying about your synopsis. You like to spend $75 per script per contest every...

Plot is no problem. You already have an outstanding outline to follow and you've already written act one, act two and act three. You...

Pack a waterproof jacket and dress in layers. Consider packing rain boots. You'll be hiking in the woods, walking in cities, and it rains...

Here are three classic Shakespeare plays to get you started with some ideas. Romeo and Juliet -- Can you have characters who come from...

You get to think about Christmas all year long! Write in your Christmas PJs! Hot chocolate with whipped cream and Christmas sprinkles...

I'm a slacker. Really. Card-carrying. I have a DVD of Richard Linklater's film, Slacker, which he signed at the end of my internship at...