Winter is coming. Not the good-fun winter with Jon Snow saving the day and Sansa coming home to Winterfell. No, the real winter is coming, with familial obligations, cold weather, and seasonal depression. Some people have claustrophobia and hate the feeling of the walls closing in around them. Cold weather…
This is a very basic checklist for a simple 72-Hour Kit (sometimes called a Bug Out Bag). It has supplies to last your for three days, which is the estimated time needed for relief organizations to arrive in your area and start handing out food and water after a major…
In case you were curious how much gets cut or rewritten from a novel… … my Cut Scene file for #ChangeOfMomentum is at 10k right now. The final novel will probably be 90k. The cut scenes are things I rewrote from a different POV, parts of scenes that…
2018 has been an interesting year for me. To say it didn’t quite go as planned is an understatement. In January I had some really big plans and a really tight schedule planned out. There was so much I wanted to do that by March I felt burnt out and…
Years ago when I first published a book and broke the news to my family that their child was –gasp!- a writer my father asked if I did morning pages. If you have followed my family’s shenanigans online you know this is 100% a normal response to finding out your…
We all know the most fun part of any con is the cosplay. There may be actors, authors, and artists on site… but really we’re all here to watch the wonderful parade of amazing costumes and talent that’s on display. I didn’t get as many pictures as I wanted (it…
Stan Lee is famous for appearing in the movies adapted from the comics her wrote. In every Marvel movie, he’s somewhere. From delivery man, to the man on the bus, to the janitor in the background he’s a constant (but quiet) character. For Patreon subscribers there is also a Stan…
Sometimes I forget to stop and appreciate how pretty this corner of the world is. It’s been a busy week with lots of ups and downs. Today is a good time to stop, enjoy the view, smell the briny ocean air, and soak up the precious sunshine that’s so rare…
The query letter… Dreaded. Hated. Feared. Reviled. The query letter is a necessary requirement for getting your story in front of literary agents and editors. More importantly, the query letter is what sells your books to readers. Yup, that’s right, even indie authors write query letters. Grab the nearest fiction…