I am slowly starting to get back into the swing of things after my surgery and am finally beginning to have enough brain that I can think. Since I’m doing a talk on this subject for my Discord writing group this week, I figured I’d revisit the Beat Sheet and story structure. I’ve done several...Read More

Author voice is a concept that is far too often mistaken for other things, so I want to start by defining what voice isn’t. I start there because the majority of times I’ve ever dealt with an issue regarding author voice are situations where an author develops a mistaken idea of what their voice includes....Read More

The last few weeks I’ve been spending many, many hours a day in study of the part of writing few authors enjoy and most dislike: marketing. I took the free Amazon Ads Course by the excellent Bryan Cohen, attended his seminar on newsletter marketing a few days ago, and I spent hours and hours fine-tuning...Read More

I haven’t written a blog much since I switched over to the new site, and I am considering getting back into this. If nothing else, it’ll give me things I can add to the newsletter! I know a lot of writers have found my blog posts helpful over the many years I’ve been doing this,...Read More

When we start writing, we often start with a grand idea. A plan. An aspiration. When I was in high school writing my first “novel” (it was 40 pages in Word), I wanted to write this epic romance novel. I named it “Chapter One” and had this female author get sucked into the world of...Read More

I’m working on a class about this, so that’s forthcoming, but I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about and discussing what, exactly, this means. It is, in my opinion, vitally important (as you might have guessed by the fact that I’m creating a class about it). So what, exactly, do I mean...Read More

Hoo, has it been a week! This week I switched hosts from WordPress.com to another host which will allow me to do things like set up my newsletter how I would like it. WordPress, as useful as it has been the last eleven years, charged more to provide me with the same services, and, as...Read More

First, before all else, I want to share the announcement that my novel, “Fallen” is up for pre-order on Amazon. I could not be more excited, to be honest. After a decade on the publishing side of the writing world, I am finally entering it as an author. I’ve put out a bunch of short...Read More

This week I am using my “Fallen Friday” to do something a little different. Since we are creeping up on the release date (January 13, 2022), I am taking this time and space to share a first peek at my cover and first two chapters! In case you haven’t seen me screaming from the rooftops...Read More

Being an author also means you need to maintain that public-facing image. Which means marketing, acting appropriately in your public spaces, sharing parts of your life with the world (not all of it, but some), and so on. You are an author, not just a private citizen.Read More