September 15, 2023

Paramour is about to be in the beta reading stage! What does that mean? It means I need readers to give me feedback from the reader’s perspective. I’ve made a…

August 15, 2022

Though I definitely like to have professional editors look at my novels, I always run through a general self-editing list, so that I do not waste a good editing opportunity…

June 15, 2022

Writing Young Adult (YA) novels is about more than just writing a protagonist who’s in their teens—though that is one of the criteria. Things to keep in mind The young…

May 15, 2022

Here is my non-official guide to query letter writing! Believe it or not, they are pretty formulaic! Paragraph One: Start with a “when” sentence that describes your characters age, name,…

February 15, 2022

Richard Bach, who wrote Jonathan Livingston Seagull, once said that a professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit. Writing is hard. Publicizing writing is really hard. If you’re trying…