Writing While the Rice Boils

This is Chapter 1 of The Unspoken, an exclusive novella for my newsletter list. Coming June 2020. Enjoy! Hiding is...

This post is especially true for me today. For the last two weeks my head has been immersed in researching and making food safe for my s...

My post is late today, because I've been wrestling with a case of tomatoes. They started out like this. Then I had to s...

The group dressed up and headed to the premiere. My house is unnaturally quiet. It's the first official day of Spring Break, and I ha...

Making writing contacts is a big part of the publishing process. Attending workshops and conferences can put writers in range of coveted age...

Today and tomorrow I'm interviewing author and writing teacher Jack Remick. Remick, along with author Robert J. Ray, run a fantastic wri...

 We're getting close to the halfway point of NaNoWriMo, and this is where it gets hard to keep going. To give you a little inspiration f...

  Today I'm interviewing author Dustin Kuhlman, who has recently released his debut novel, Warned . I wanted to pick his brain abo...

Writing is hard. Writing with huge boulders blocking your way is even harder. How do you keep going when everything in life seems to point a...

If you love mysteries, you already know about Sue Grafton . A prolific writer, she is currently on book twenty-one of a twenty-six book se...

Thanks to a heads up in the latest issue of The Writer magazine, I've discovered a fascinating spot to get to know my favorite authors....

I'm fascinated with peering into the spaces where writers create. Whether it's a pristine cottage look, or a cluttered space domin...

I can't tell you how impressed I am with author J. A. Konrath. He is a best-selling, multi-published author, who gives back to new write...

The current advice for new fiction authors is to pick a genre and stick to it, in order to build an audience. Author Marilynn Byerly began h...

It amazes me that after writing over 40 books, an author remembers what it's like to be just starting out, and gives away some of their ...

This week's book, Plot & Structure ,  is getting quite dog-eared and marked up. Before I could write my review, I had to pry it from...

If you're a fiction writer, you probably know about Nanowrimo, where you spend the month of November writing a novel. Chances are, you h...

Thousands upon thousands of people begin novels. Only a tiny fraction of those actually finish, and from these, publishers choose the ones w...