Let me be clear from the start: There’s no one way to write a chapter. There are no rules about chapters. A chapter could be a few words, it could be a hundred pages. It could be all dialogue, it could be all action, it could be nothing but emojis and hieroglyphics. You do you! […]
This week! Books! Some really terrific news for the book world this week as independent online bookseller Bookshop.org has launched its long-awaited e-book platform. You can now buy e-books that support many of your favorite independent bookstores! I gave the app a spin, and it looks great. For now they have traditionally published books, but […]
Nearly every week I hear from an author who has a question for me because they’re in the process of being scammed. Publishing scams are RAMPANT. They have always existed, but they’ve reached epidemic status of late, along with America’s horrid overall scam culture. There was finally some good news on this front as some […]
This week! Books! In a week where we have a new president and rich, evil dweebs are out doing Nazi salutes, the fight to ban books continues apace. In Utah, students can no longer even bring their personal copies of banned books to school. The list of banned books includes perennial book ban favorite Ellen […]
If you have a hankering to get away from it all and hole up in an inspiring little cabin in rural Wales, UK, to write to your heart’s content, have I got just the place for you. Last year, my good friend Julia Forster, a writer, author coach, and publicist, officially opened the Write Within […]