Back in 2011, seven authors--published and aspiring to be--set up a blog to share our experiences as we navigated the industry, honed our cr...

This Week's Topic: What Genre Have I Secretly Wished I Could Write? Dun-nuh Dun-nuh Dun-nuh dun-na-na-na-nah!!! 🦈 Thrillers waits for e...

  This Week's Topic: IRL Person on Whom I've Based a Character Beyond models whose images helped me focus on the physical aspects, I...

 This Week's Topic: Promote My Work! This week, my dark fantasy LARCOUT is on sale for $0.99 in eBook format. The sale ends Monday, May ...

 This Week's Topic: My Revision Process Though Jeffe and I have different methods of drafting, my revision process is pretty much the sa...

  This Week's Topic: Series--How Do I Know When One Has Played Out? To know when a series has gone stale, it helps to understand what ma...

This Week's Topic:  Worst ROI Ever  The list of low/bad Returns on Investment (ROI) in which I've engaged is long. Whether the retur...

 This Week's Topic: Tik-Tok Trends: Have I Tried Any Reading or Writing Trends? Oh, y'all, no. Not even when I was in middle school-...

This Week's Topic: On My Mind -- Compressing Real-Life Politics into a Believable Fantasy Timeline Today's an election day here in O...

 This Week's Topic: Author Websites Do's and Don'ts We all know by now that authors need a home on the web that is theirs and no...

 This Week's Topic:  Which Tropes Do I Love to Write and Which Do I Loathe? I don't know if there is a Fantasy trope I loathe to wri...

  This Week's Topic: How Do I Stop Overthinking My Writing? {cuts open skull} {takes out brain} {leaves it on desk} No? Maybe not? Okay,...

 This Week's Topic: How Do I Make My Love Scenes Believable? Man, it's tough being the one to follow Jeffe, who won Romancelandia...

This Week's Topic: What Are My Book Launch Tips? The most important one? Have fun. Celebrate.      Really. I'm not being a smartass ...

  This Week's Topic: How Do I Make Book-Related Income Not from Book Sales? Uhm. {sucks on upper lip} I don't. As Jeffe mentioned on...

 This Week's Topic: Has My Writing Changed? How? I'd like to think my writing has improved, though I suppose that's a bit subjec...

  This Week's Topic: Secret Skills - Hobbies That Take the Pressure Off Writing I really love Jeffe's description on Sunday of a cre...

This week's topic: Do I look for new skills to try each year or with each book? Intentionally? By series. I definitely like to attempt s...

  This Week's Topic: 3 Sources of Inspiration Happy 2024! On this second day of the new year, some of us are reluctantly emerging from t...

 This Week's Topic: Thoughts on the Closing of the Year/Start of the New Year As we say goodbye to 2023 and look ahead to 2024 I wish yo...