Last Friday, May 1st, we celebrated the worldwide release of Set in Stone in both ebook and hardcover formats with a local book launch. The event proved very successful and […]
Life is conflict. Story is conflict. One of the reasons we seek out great stories is for help dealing with conflict in our lives. We learn lessons from our characters, […]
Check out this Goodreads Giveaway! Additionally, if you go to this page you can sign-up for my newsletter. I’ll send you a code for a free ebook download in May. […]
Saving Face has just received a face lift! Although I always loved the original cover of Saving Face, I learned that it gave some people the incorrect impression that the […]
Withholding information just to mess with your readers doesn’t work. If the character would know something, the reader should know it, particularly if you write in first person or deep-dive […]
Who do you love? What do you love? Everyone needs a little passion. The interesting people in story, and in life, are those who embrace what they love with passion. […]
Part two of my series about preparing a novel for launch. In part one, I revealed the full map of Obrion. As cool as the high-level view is, the close-ups […]
Last week I put on my Scoutmaster hat and took a group of 18 scouts and four adults to the Lava Beds National Monument south of Klamath Falls. If you […]
As I mentioned in this post last month, I’m gearing up to release eight novels this year (#8books8months)! While I’m still cranking out words like mad to complete the last […]
One aspect of character that can be hard to pin down is: How funny should they be? Most of us aren’t comedy writers. We write fantasy or science fiction or […]