Completion

“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End.” Revelation 21:6 (NIV)  Do you finish what…

A Rookie’s Best Advice

In the short time since I published my first book (10/10/2020), I’ve been asked many times what advice I…

Baby Steps

After my accident, I was eager to get back to my old life. Why wouldn’t I? I was in…

Talking About Writing and Contests with 2020 First Impressions YA Finalist Annette Griffin

The First Impressions Contest is held every year by ACFW. This year, Annette Griffin made it to finalists’ list…

Novelists Unwind Interviews Alexis A. Goring

Alexis A. Goring got her writing start as a very young girl. For a few years, her mother required…

Christmas Greetings

The Complete Guide For Beginners To Stand Out On Twitter

Twitter is a major social media platform, which holds 330 million monthly active users, and 450 million daily active…

The Two Big Cs

So, it’s Christmas and we’re all still dealing with Covid. Who would have imagined a year ago when we…

Don’t Commit a Rhyme Crime

You might have heard that “Rhyme is a crime,” and that editors don’t like rhyming board books and picture…

How to Market Your Book in 2020

The difference between filing your carefully edited pages on your computer and readers reading those pages, is marketing. Books…

Gain a Clearer Understanding Through Reading

Outside of studying the necessary and ever-increasing number of how-to books on writing, character building, plotting, showing and telling,…

Ringing in the New with Great Resources

As we look ahead to a new year and a new opportunity to write and learn, I wanted to…

Writers Chat Recap for December, Part 1

Writers Chat, hosted by Jean Wise, Johnnie Alexander, and Bethany Jett, is the show where we talk about all…

3 Reasons to Disagree with an Editor

You might be surprised to read the title of this post. Aren’t editors always right? Won’t you doom your…

Why All Writers Should Read in Translation

In my last year of college, I took a class that destroyed my trust in translation. For our first…

Interview with Award-Winning Author Paul Ellis

Can you share a little about your recent book? The Silent Queen captures my passion for men and women…

Secrets of Successful Authors

The writer’s life is full of challenge and discouragement, rejection and struggle. The famous authors we admire surely never…

Cat Got Your Tongue? Tricky Idiomatic Expressions That Get Us Bent Out of Shape

Let’s Cut Ourselves Some Slack  Adding a little flair to your writing with idioms can be confusing, but hang…

What is Your Writer Mission Statement?

Every year around this time, I take a moment to reflect on the progress I have made as a…

What’s on Your Writer’s Wish List?

The Christmas season is an excellent time to expand your writing resources. Here are some suggestions of items you…

Military Units and Ranks for Your Speculative Fiction Novel

As writers of speculative fiction, military forces are a stable in many of our stories. Basing these on a…

National (What?) Month

As you are reading this, it is December, the last month in the slog that has been 2020. Many…

Survival Tips for the Waiting Part of Writing Tip #22 – Find Your Fellow Tesserae and Stick Together (Part 1)

I am convinced that my writing journey is not just about me. God has a master plan to use…

December Denouement

Thanksgiving is over and we’re eagerly awaiting Christmas and the new year! It’s a safe bet 2020 hasn’t gone…

Confidence in Your Call

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to…