https://tenor.com/view/magic-ribbon-rope-mouth-gif-3791433 Sometimes you think of an amazing story with fantastic characters. When you sit down to write the story, it flows like wine and goes down so easy. You revel in that incredible feeling of accomplishment. The story just works and you know it’s going to be wonderful. And then…

The hardest part of being a writer of historical fiction is the research. Oh, it’s not always difficult to find resources or to go through them searching for the answers to questions. No, the hardest part of research is stopping — stopping going through all the resources found, being satisfied…

I woke up feeling off today and wondered why. Was I sad? Upset? Had I not slept well? Was I coming down with something? I didn’t know what it was. I was just feeling… off. Not right. I eventually decided that I was feeling depressed. There are many different ways…

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. …

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. …