Show Your Readers All Kinds of Love and Write an Outstanding Story
How? With deeper, more passionate characters and creative plotting. I couldn’t let February pass by without focusing on the theme of...
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Is Your Beta Reader a Superhero or Soul Sucker?
Finding the right beta reader can often be as difficult as finding that minuscule sliver of glass embedded under your skin and just as...
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AN INSPIRING CONVERSATION WITH AUTHOR REBECCA LANGE
Please join me for this inspirational conversation with Christian Romance Author Rebecca Lange, who is about to release her eleventh...
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Cash in on the Benefits of Deep Point of View
All too often, and not only when critiquing a manuscript or editing for one of my clients but also when I’m simply reading a book for...
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BLOW UP THOSE FICTION-WRITING RULES
Tales of “writing rules” follow us everywhere, from our critique groups and writing groups to workshops, online blogs, videos, etc. Get...
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Are You Dating Your Story?
And no, I'm not talking about dinner and a movie. What I’m talking about here is whether putting the year in a timeline is a good idea....
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Meet Paranormal and Fantasy Romance Author, Aiden Pierce
Aiden pens sensual tales filled with dark vampires, wicked fae, fiery witches, and deliciously dangerous demons. Aiden, thank you so much...
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WHAT’S YOUR BOOK WEARING TO ITS PREMIER?
Don’t Look Now, But Your Book is Being Judged By Its Cover. And that includes both the front and back. There’s an analogy I heard not too...
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What's World Building Got to Do with Writing Contemporary Fiction? Everything!
No matter where you live on this Earth, I imagine your world is somewhat different than it was a year ago, and I want you to think about...
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GOT LEAKS IN YOUR PLOT?
Avoid Those Small Leaks Because They Ultimately Lead to Major Cracks Ever read a story that had tiny leaks in its plotline? Those...
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WRITING WITH ALL FIVE SENSES
Oh, the visuals! Now some of you may have heard me talk about this before, but visuals are more important than you can imagine. Without...
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WHAT'S THE RIGHT PUBLISHING ROUTE FOR YOU? (Part 3 of a 4 Part Series - Independent Publishing)
I see post after post on various Facebook pages discussing traditional publishing versus self-publishing, but no one talks about the indepen
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Which Path to Publishing is Right for You! (Part 2 of a 4 Part Series - Traditional)
As Bob Dylan told us way back in the early sixties, “the times they are a-changin’” and boy are they ever. We’re in the 21st century now, a
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What's The Right Publishing Path For You? (Part 1 of a 4 part series)
Many of the aspiring authors I run into have done little research in the area of publishing. If you ask me, I’d say this is because they are
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Writer's Block. Legend, Myth, or Folktale?
How about all three. After all, a legend is a story that typically includes an element of truth. It’s based on historical facts, but with my
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20 Things You Need to Know About Your Main Character
Have you been told your characters are one or two-dimensional? Perhaps you’re having trouble weaving your character arc or connecting those
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SHEDDING THE UGLY MASK FROM SELF-EDITING
What you envision when you think about self-editing is nothing but a mask that simply needs to be peeled away. I swear it!
Daily, I hear w
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Are You On Pace To Get Your Readers Over the Finish Line?
How important is pacing? Probably more than you realize. Poor pacing can easily send your book to the donate pile. Or worse, the garbage pil
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Create a Fictional Character your Readers Will Want to Spend Time With
I want you to think in terms of a movie and the actors who play in them (we all see a movie every now and then, even if it’s from the
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Getting Back to Basics - Fact vs. Fiction
Fact: A thing that is indisputably the case.
Fiction: Literature in the form of prose, especially short stories and novels, that descri
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