The All-Important Newsletter

The All-Important Newsletter

A newsletter is a lot more important than a lot of new authors realize. Here’s a list of all that a newsletter can do for you. Writing a newsletter makes you think about who you are in your writer persona. Who you are in real life is not necessarily who you are online...
Succeeding

Succeeding

How do you know when you’ve made it? How do you know when you have succeeded? What is your definition of success? This can be with anything in your life: your marriage, your full-time job, your tennis game, whatever! But, of course, what I’m talking about right now is...
Author Websites

Author Websites

My sincere apologies to you! I did not have time to write a blog this past week because I was preparing a talk for the Washington Romance Writer’s Retreat this weekend. Therefore, for my blog today, I’m going to direct you to my talk PowerPoint...
A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

A Controversial View of Piracy and AI

Why do you write? With the revelation that Meta used a known pirate site to train their AI, I’ve heard so many cries of rage and bemoaning of authors wondering why they even write if their work is just going to be stolen. But if they don’t write for their work to be...
To use AI or not

To use AI or not

It’s the question so many authors are struggling with—and by authors, I mean people who come up with an idea for a novel, write it without assistance except from other human beings, and then publish. There is Artificial Intelligence EVERWHERE. You’ve heard...
Marvin is Quite Amazing: A Review

Marvin is Quite Amazing: A Review

I live off my to-do lists. I have also tried many different ways of keeping them. I’ve tried keeping them on paper in my daily planner (I still do that), I have tried writing them on a little mini easel white board (I do that when I’ve got a ton of things I need to...