Guest Blogger: Kyle Mills After fifteen years making my living as a novelist, I recently had a couple of new and strange experiences. I was happily plugging away at my manuscript for THE IMMORTALISTS when I got a call from the Robert Ludlum estate asking if I’d be interested in …
Guest Blogger: Reed Farrel Coleman By the time this blog post appears, my thirteenth (GUN CHURCH, Audible.com) and fourteenth (HURT MACHINE, Tyrus Books) novels will be on the shelves—actual and virtual. Although I don’t get quite as excited by the release of my latest novel or novels, I do still …
Guest Blogger: Laurie Faria Stolarz I’m so excited to announce the release of DEADLY LITTLE VOICES, the fourth book in the Touch series (Disney/Hyperion Books for Children). Inspiration for the Touch series: Following the success of my BLUE IS FOR NIGHTMARES series, in which my main character is plagued and …
Guest Blogger: Jane Friedman In the July/August 2011 issue of WRITER’S DIGEST magazine, I have a featured article, “Revising Your Path to Publication.” If you’re aiming for traditional publication, and you’re wondering how close you might be to reaching your goal, I highly recommend picking up the issue and reading …
Guest Blogger: Robert Lee Brewer There are lots of rules or codes a writer can live by, but the following two rules are a great start that cover a lot of the problems I see in the real world of writing and submitting. If you have other rules, I’d …
Guest Blogger: Derek Clendening I like doing book store signings. Some authors aren’t so crazy about it, but I can see the upside. From my own experience, I can see that it’s an art and not a science. There’s more to it than sitting at a table with a puppy …
Guest Blogger: Richard A. Knaak When asked to do this guest blog, I knew immediately what I wanted to pass along. It matters not how many questions at conventions or probing emails I receive, those that do not deal with commentary on my works most often boil down to one …
Guest Blogger: F. Paul Wilson I just got off a book tour for THE DARK AT THE END: Houston, Burbank, Redondo Beach, Phoenix, Atlanta in six days. A book tour sounds like fun, but it involved living out of a suitcase in a different hotel every night (two consecutive nights in …
Guest Blogger: David Sakmyster What keeps me up at night, cowering in fear, is that fact will catch up with my fiction and make what I’m currently writing—or what I’ve already written—irrelevant. But will it really? I’m sure this is a scenario many fiction writers, especially those of us who write …
Guest Blogger: Ilsa J. Bick Talk to folks in survivalist circles, go to classes and workshops and whatnot, and you hear a lot of stuff about threes: what has to be done in those first three minutes, three hours, three days, three weeks. These parameters all make good sense, too, because …
