Story Fix: Transform Your Novel from Broken to Brilliant

Announcing the release of the Kindle edition of my new writing book… two months before the official release date.   Nothing is ever precise about the “release date” of a new book.  It can end up in a bookstore two weeks before the prophesied “Official Release Date,” or because of the whims of booksellers, gather dust in […]

One From the Heart

Some of you may be aware that I’m now also blogging on The Kill Zone, which for me is like being asked to do a regular TED talk (a goal that remains in my sites, by the way).  Nine published thriller/mystery authors post daily (rotating the hot seat) on cross-genre writing topics. Today is my […]

Case Study – The New Writer TRAP That Awaits The Unaware

As readers, we consume a lot of average content. And sometimes average is perfectly fine, it fills thirty blank minutes of staring at a television or 90-plus minutes of munching popcorn in a dark theater with perfectly reasonable satisfaction, an ROI of our time that doesn’t feel like a ripoff. Then again, if that’s the case […]