Although I'm an introvert, I gain a lot of inspiration from the people around me--writer friends and groups, my family, and, of course...

  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...

 Happy New Year! On this New Year's Eve day, I'm busy crunching year-end financials in preparation to go to quarterly tax-reporting....

One of the things I used to most fear when I was a young writer was running out of ideas or the motivation to work on stories. As it turns o...

 Barnes & Noble is offering 25% on preorders for the next 3 days, so if you read on Nook and want a great discount on TWISTED MAGIC , go...

 This Week's Topic: How to Find Inspiration When the Story Won't Come to Me I'm the sort for whom the broad strokes of the story...

SHADOW WIZARD releases tomorrow!! Preorder price of $4.99 will be good into tomorrow, then it goes up. (Along with my grocery bill, alas!) ...

'Where I get inspiration', 'filling the well' and all the other euphemisms we use to encompass what really amounts to self-c...

pic from my hiking adventures If you’re a writer, you’ve undoubtedly been asked where do you get your ideas from? About a thousand ti...

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is inspiration. What other media inspires us: fandom, music, photography, paintings? For me, the an...

My most frequent story starter...is a vague concept of a conflict. A broad view that's mushy and loosely defined. It often is rooted in...

I listen to music...all the time. When I need to sink into a mood, I have a playlist for that. When I'm not connecting with a situation...

Humanity and the world of science lost one of our brightest, sharpest minds. Professor Stephen Hawking made some of the most arcane concepts...

Taking real-world non-fiction events and twisting them into a scene in a fantasy novel? Who does that? Me. Totally me. It's the tw...

I just got back from the RT Booklovers Convention in Atlanta. Here's Sonali Dev and Grace Draven , after accepting their awards for...