Blog Posts Thomas Cannon Author

  • A Great Read about Autism

    Wonderful. Challenging. Beautiful. Frustrating. But so worth it. My boyfriend, Kyle, and I have been dating for around a year and a half now, and he has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia. I’m often asked if that makes a relationship difficult, and my honest answer is always yes. Of course it does. So […]…

  • Everyone is The Same

    Everyone is The Same

    Mental illness is just that. An illness. We don’t make fun of a person with cancer. We do not shun them or think them as weird. Mental illness is not the person’s fault.

  • 62 NO FEE poetry book publishers important tips on submitting your manuscript — Trish Hopkinson

    If you write poems, they are a great way to get started in getting published in journals. It’s so important to do your homework before sending your manuscript to a publisher. Make sure to take notes for each publisher you research. You will most likely want to compare them to each other before deciding where…

  • Know the Child- IEP

    That info is great for guidance, but for every generalization made (yes by me included, there are just as many exceptions).

  • Maas the Man

    Originally posted on writingwithdixie: Reading or re-reading Writing the Breakout Novel is so enlightening after hitting my third published novel. I know I read this a ton of years ago, but I’m seeing new things even in the introduction. For example, in the foreward, for goodnss sake, Donald Maas says he took an informal survey…