Are You Writing Literary Fiction? (Spoiler: Probably Not)June 4, 2026Who can blame authors for not wanting to classify their own stories—which they may have labored over for months, years,…
How Do You Know If You’re Ready to Query?March 12, 2026If you’d like to receive my blog in your in-box each week, click here. I had two first-chapters consultations with authors…
What’s the Point?January 22, 2026One of the things that has been striking me lately is that regardless of your ideological or political beliefs, it…
Luck and the Ladder of LifeNovember 13, 2025It’s humbling, and sometimes discouraging, to imagine that regardless of what we may put into our careers (or anything else),…
Interactive Storytelling and Extended Reality: The Future of Fiction?November 6, 2025VP of Immersive Content Innovation Vicki Dobbs Beck spoke at UT-Austin recently on how Lucasfilm/ILM is working to pioneer immersive…
How to Talk to Anyone about Your Writing (or Anything)October 9, 2025Whether it’s at writing events with other authors, or you’re pitching your work to agents and editors, or talking about…
Hope and Action: Fuel for the FireJune 19, 2025Authors are often the purveyors of hope. We are the ones who explore human nature and draw people together through…
Protect Yourself from the TrollsJune 12, 2025Many of us in our field utilize stock photos, whether images on our websites or social media, those used to…
What If Your Creative Flame Is Flickering?June 5, 2025Forging a career in publishing, as I’ve often written and spoken about, often encompasses an endless series of ups and…
What Does a Developmental Editor Do? GPS and Map ViewApril 24, 2025One of my pet peeves about editing (and I have a few) is when an author will tell me or…
