It's In The Details

It seems to be the summer of Call posts! These never get old. So glad to welcome Melissa to the blog. Congrats, Melissa, happy to have you ...

In honor of Pitch Wars, here's a little post about a basic of writing. Tag or Beat. Do you know which is which and how they involve ...

A couple of firsts today: Our first set of co-authors! Meet Carrie and Betsy, who are also the Grand Champions of Query Kombat 2014. Their ...

I'm having so much fun giving away a query critique for the one year book birthday of Kindar's Cure , that I want to do more. Here...

If first you don't succeed ....  You get the picture. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of encouragement and that can s...

It's really nice to give some time to Joyce Alton as she has done so much for me. Joyce moderates the speculative fiction forum where I ...

A man wakes on a frozen battlefield when a scavenging couple finds him among the dead. As they nurse him back to health, he is struck...

This is my first year being a PitchWars' mentor. But not my first contest rodeo. If you direct your submission (using the correct ...

Writers have copious amounts of imagination. It's what makes their stories so fantastic. But there's a darker side to so much out of...