Lesa Boutin

As a self-published author, I'm always looking for efficient ways to promote and market my work. So, while exploring options for best usi...

Sometimes life doles out a departure from the norm. The summer of 2017 was that for me, in more ways than one, and the Novel Starter Comp...

My adventures in book covers continued with the next book in the Amanda Noble series. I’d gotten lucky with the first book since I needed...

When I decided not to use the cover mock-up with the Steve Irwin caricature for my first book, Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, I ...

In my last post, I mentioned working in a middle school library when I wrote Amanda Noble, Zookeeper Extraordinaire, now called Amanda No...

Recently, while rummaging through old photos, I started thinking about the evolution of the Amanda Noble covers, how much fun it’s been t...

In my last post, I wrote about using poetry in my creative writing classrooms, and how that changed my fiction writing. I'm continuing my...

By definition, prose is dull. Look it up. Merriam-Webster defines it as: 1.) ordinary language people use in speaking or writing. 2.) a d...