On this week's blog I quote one of America's favorite presidents, John F. Kennedy from an article written in November 2015 by Erin Blakemore for Time Magazine. He said, "Every American who has ever lived, with the exception of ONE group, was either an immigrant himself or a descendant of immigrants." I do believe this is something we should all keep in mind. Our nation is a nation of immigrants. Together we are what makes America the most beautiful country in the world. We

Last week I read an interesting fact about immigrants. I found out that 83% of finalists of the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search were children of immigrants! Yes! That's amazing! On this week's video I discuss how important details are in fictional writing. You have to know how the devil is in the details... in one chapter you cannot start talking about a supporting character being 12 and then three chapters later he or she is 22... yeah they're not a make it or break it var

Did you know that Albert Einstein was an immigrant? Yes! The father of modern physics, the man who discovered E=mc2 and developed the special theory of relativity...yeah him. He migrated to several countries before ending up in the USA. "The word is a dangerous place to love, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."- Albert Einstein Listen out you budding authors...do not give up! Some of the most famous people failed

Well I sure didn't...kinda makes me think I fell asleep some time during American History class in high school. I really should have paid attention to this part. Well I was in Utah this past week and weekend and heard that 1 in every 4 school aged student is of Hispanic/Latino decend. Initially I thought..."Hmmm... Mormon country is full of Latinos?". Well it turns out that it's true. Utah along with 6 other full/partial states were all part of Mexico until the war which en