The Best Gift You Can Give Any Writer

The Best Gift You Can Give Any Writer

It’s that time of year again! Yup, time to look through all those lists of things you either can’t afford or can’t image why anyone would think a writer would want that (an antique manual typewriter? Really?? I mean… it’s pretty, but unless you’ve got a lot of spare...
AuthorTube!

AuthorTube!

AuthorTube! As my husband said when I said the word aloud to him, “What the heck is that?” Have you heard of it? I certainly hadn’t until I attended the SelfPubCon a few weeks ago. It’s similar to BookTok and Bookstagram, only it’s for authors—and there is,...
Learning from Failure

Learning from Failure

We all fail. We all try new things and have them just not work out the way you expected. But that doesn’t mean that you throw away what you did and never look at it again. You need to stop, take a good hard look at what you did and why it didn’t work and see what you...
Writing romance

Writing romance

As a writer of romance, I realized I haven’t written about the fundamentals of writing romance here in a very, very long time! Whether you write romance or another genre, it’s very likely that you’re going to have at least some romance in your story. The thing is, we...
Omniscient POV, part 2

Omniscient POV, part 2

Why does Omniscient POV work sometimes? Last week I wrote a post on how you really should not write in omniscient POV. I was reading a Regency-set fantasy romance and the omniscient POV kept me at arm’s length from the characters, so I really couldn’t fall in love...