All Hallows Read

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne In honor of tonight's Halloween, I thought I would plug a great idea touted by Neil Gaiman , called All Hallo...

What the Hell Do You Want to Say to Me?

James Scott Bell Twitter.com/jamesscottbell You have to evolve a permanent set of values to serve as motivation. – Leon Uris This week I...

The Most Frightening Thing. Ever.

It’s Halloween weekend. We’re writers, and we do stories. It’s story time. So tell me: what is the most frightening thing that ever happened...

I Write Fat

By John Gilstrap After receiving the email to which my manuscript for Damage Control (July, 2012) was attached, my agent wrote back the fol...

Imagine Being Sixteen & Told You Aren't Human - Guest C C Hunter

By Jordan Dane I’ve had the pleasure of meeting C C Hunter years ago before I’d sold my first book. In a Texas term, she's a real HOOT!...

Storytelling Magic

Over the weekend, one of our neighbors a block away had a loud party. The music reverberated through our house. As our bedrooms faced the di...

JACK CANFIELD’S SUCCESS: 10 Tips to Self Promote Like a Marketer

By Kathleen Pickering http://www.kathleenpickering.com/ Jack Canfield spoke on one of Steve Harrison’s marketing webinars on “How to get f...

Podcasts, Research and Marketing

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Ever since I purchased my iPhone and iPad a year and a bit ago, I have become a podcast junkie. I listen to them ...

What Gives Me the Writing Heebie Jeebies

James Scott Bell Twitter.com/jamesscottbell heebie-jeebies | ˈ hēbē ˈ jēbēz|, pl. n., a state of nervous fear or anxiety I love almost ev...

I’M ALL SWIMMY HEADED, SO I MUST BE DOING IT RIGHT.

John Ramsey Miller Just to get everybody up to speed, I’m going through my process as I rewrite and move to publish my latest nove...

Virtual Book Tours – YA Style

By Jordan Dane On a Dark Wing - When 16-year old Abbey Chandler cheats Death and lives past her expiration date, her lucky break comes at a...

Kill ‘em, kill ‘em all!

By Joe Moore First, a huge thank-you to everyone who responded to Amazon’s “daily deal” promo yesterday and downloaded the e-book version ...

Creating a vision of your writing future

Photo by Wesley Fryer I'm in Colorado Springs, where yesterday I was lucky enough to hear a keynote presentation by futurist Thomas Frey...

"Discoverability"

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Continuing Jim's great discussion yesterday, I heard a term last week that I think sums up one of the challen...