Is the Page One notebook a writer's most essential low-tech tool? When it comes to what I like to call "prep work" on a new project, like...

Depending on what you did for a living in the days before the pandemic, chances are your daily routine has been altered. Maybe you no lon...

If you're a writer on social media, no doubt you've been solicited by ads promising to teach you a secret but proven and a surefire metho...

If you're anything like me, you're using the quarantine as a time to catch up on reading and forge ahead on writing. And if you're not li...

To write every day, or not—that seems to be the question most "writers" ask. The answer to one of the most asked questions in the busines...

With just a few weeks left in 2019, I'd like to give a shout-out to a few of my absolute favorite reads of the year (so far) and just rem...

A new year and a new decade are less than a month away! Yeah, I can't fecking believe it, either, but here we are. This is the perfect ti...

It's really hard to believe that my debut novel, Far From Grace, is now only eleven months away from publication! People have asked me if...

This is not a drill! I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The time has come to reveal the title of my debut novel. Awww, yeah! Chick a bow wow....

It's been a bit since I posted a new blog, but things have been anything but uneventful over here! Let's catch up. Shall we? Last year, a...

"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often tha...

"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his bo...

Art isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define 'writing...

2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018 behin...

Or, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...

"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's i...

The work is hard. Let's be honest — it's really hard. How many times have you sat down and toiled away on several pages only to throw the...

Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to wri...

"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" by Jessica Brody I will always have a soft-spot for Save the Cat! and the late Blake Snyder. For the unini...

TRICK November 1. 2:38am. Vic spotted the older man first, zeroing in on the limping fellow as their van drove down the deserted Main Str...