Reader Friday: What Keeps You Going?

We all know it can be hard to fill the blank screen or page day after day, to keep producing those words. What keeps you going as a writer w...

Don't Read Your Reviews

by Michelle Gagnon As part of Thrillerfest one year, they gave a special award (if a piece of fossilized poop can be considered an award) to...

Readers at Sea

I just came from the Florida Romance Writers cruise conference aboard the Liberty of the Seas. For a full report and photos, check my perso...

Writing funny

By PJ Parrish Okay, I give up. I can't do it. I can't write funny. Those of you who can do it, I can hear you out there going: BWAAA...

But I Want Success Now!

by Boyd Morrison When I was a writer aspiring to be published, I went to a book signing here in Seattle where number one be...

When Writers Get Dumped

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell In December I got to spend a few weeks in paradise. My lovely wife got the idea some time ago o...

Censorship Sucks

by Mark Alpert Like many writers, I’m avidly following the turmoil at Southern Weekend and the Beijing News , the Chinese newspapers where ...

Reader Friday: It's Never Too Late

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." - George Eliot (1819 - 1880). True for you?

10 Life Lessons I Learned from my Dog(s)

Jordan Dane @JordanDane Dogs know stuff. Sometimes I believe they carry souls who are on a higher level of existence than we are because the...

Death Wish motivation

By Joe Moore How often do you watch a movie with the sound turned off? Not too often, I’ll bet. Not only would you be missing a key sensor...

Dreaming up a great story, in toto

By Kathryn Lilley I'm one of those people who dreams constantly at night. I must sleep in a constant REM stage, the optimal state for dr...

Website Essentials

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Having done final, final, final edits for my agent on my latest novel (all smiles here on that front - and no sma...

Is Traditional Publishing the Raging Bull of Industry?

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Jake LaMotta, the middleweight boxer who was the subject of the Martin Scorcese/Robert De Niro film,  ...