Craft Corner: Transitions
Don’t Touch That Dial: The Craft of Scene and Chapter Transitions There’s a moment in every chapter break where you lose control of your reader. They finish the last line, their eyes drift to the white space, and for one…
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Craft Corner: Check the Fridge
The Body in the Refrigerator: In Defense of the Catalyst Character Let’s start with the name, because the name is doing a lot of work. In 1999, comics writer Gail Simone and some friends compiled a list of female characters…
A Carew Update
tl;dr – Carew 7, A Brief, Interminable Peace, is complete, in editing and revisions, and will release in January or February. Is it some finely-honed piece of literature made great after four years of careful crafting? No. I think it’s…
Why the preorder was canceled
Hey everyone, I know it is been a very long time since the last update and all of you are wondering what happened why the preorder was canceled, and what the status of the next Alexis Carew book is. TL;…
No Good Writing News, But We Have Dogs
Yes, it’s been a long, unconscionable time since I posted a writing update. If I thought 2019 was a bad writing year, 2020 handed off a beer. I’ve been told my lack of posts and unresponsiveness to queries has led…
Alexis Carew #7 Update and a Really Bad Writing Year
tl;dr – The next Carew book isn’t going to be released this year. The story’s simply not coming together yet, and it’s been a really rough year for writing. It’s mid-October, well past the time that a new Alexis Carew…
Creator Review: LegalEagle – Youtube
I maintain that this is the best time in history to be a creator – author, poet, artist, or, in this case, video. So I’m going to start a series of reviews/recommendations, starting with LegalEagle’s youtube channel and his movie…
Reader Question: Kindle Unlimited & Loss Leaders
My last post on ranking garnered a great comment that deserves an answer long enough to be its own post: I have a number of favorite authors who offer all of their books through Kindle Unlimited. How does writer compensation…
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Business of Writing: We’re #1!!
Well, no, not really. As of this writing, James Patterson is #1, but it would be nice, right? Number one seller in the Amazon US store? Maybe. It would certainly mean a lot of sales, and a lot of visibility,…