Laini Taylor, the author of Lips Touch: Three Times, Daughter of Smoke & Bone and Days of Blood & Starlight, has been highly praised for her dazzling writing. She recently passed on her five top writing tips to Publishers Weekly. Getting your characters talking is just one of her suggestions. See Publisher Weekly for the all of her tips, including a very wise elaboration on why dialogue is so important.
Sheryl McFarlane 