A quick little tidbit about non-dialogue. Or “show, don’t tell.” Do this exercise with me. Head out to your favorite used bookstore and...

Everyone’s got a gimmick to sell you about how to write. What to do. Where to put your apostrophe. When to run ads. How to frame your...

Not sweating the small stuff. This is harder than it sounds. As writers, we are also readers. That means we’re primarily consumers of...

Stages of drafts as I understand them: Draft one: adrenaline. You want to get your first draft on paper as soon as humanly possible....

Believable villains. Look… it’s easy to make a moustache-twirling Snidely Whiplash villain. Look at basically any movie or tv show. Look...

Always be writing. I’ve said it before. But unless you have product, the editing, marketing, and sales just won’t happen. I don’t care...

First off, 2016 can bite my shiny metal ass. And it couldn’t even go out quietly. Had to grab one last one at the end, didn’t it? Father...

So you want to be an indie author, eh? You poor, poor bastard. Still here? Okay. Bad news, buttercup: there’s more to life as an indie...

People ask me all the time (no they don’t) how they can make their writing better. Because I’m a master of my craft (please) and I’m...

On January 26th of this year, While making a run at the final edit of the final book in my Veiled Earth Trilogy, I spotted a terrible...