I love Anne R. Allen’s blog. A while ago I had been planning on writing on the topic of secondary characters and then she blogged on how many is too many characters (something that always needs to be touched upon when discussing secondary characters). Of course, she is always wonderful…

I’ve recently had a client ask me to upload their book to Ingram Spark. Since it’s not a service I use on a regular basis and I knew they’d been doing some upgrading and changing of their interface, I decided to pop over and upload a book of mine…

Once you’re done writing your masterpiece, rereading it, editing it, reading it again, having it professionally edited, making corrections, reading it again, having it proofread, and reading it through once more, do you send it to beta readers? If so, where do you find them? If so, what do you…

There is nothing harder than taking criticism. Having to sit back and read or hear someone else tear your hard work apart is not easy — for anyone. As writers, we are bombarded with criticism constantly. Our work is reviewed by complete strangers and posted publicly. Editors and book coaches…

Yesterday Pru Warren and I recorded a future episode of The Writers’ Block Party Podcast — we always record them about three weeks in advance of when we’re going to post it. The topic was how much money you should or could be spending on marketing — your marketing budget…

With the peaceful transfer of power in the U.S. government, I can’t help but feel as if we’ve all turned a new page. Every four years Americans have an election where we give ourselves the opportunity to try again, to start anew, to move in a different direction. …

[caption id=”attachment_7358" align=”alignleft” width=”312"] When we write a story, it’s so easy to get lost in the details. We want to be sure to include all of those luscious little bits like the smell of her hair, the feel of his skin, the warmth of the sun as it streams…

This past week my podcast co-host, Pru Warren, told me (and our listeners) about the launch of her first book, Cyn and the Peanut Butter Cup. We had planned on talking about tropes (as I blogged about it last week since the concept has been on my mind as I…

Do you plot each scene in your book? Do you think about it beforehand? Know what you’re going to write? Or do you just generally know what’s got to happen and let it go allowing the characters to do what they will? You all know by now that I’m a…