by Guest Author | Dec 30, 2020 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
Like many authors, my writing started with a story that I just couldn’t get out of my mind unless I put it to paper. Walking my dog through a local park on a foggy evening, I began to wonder what might be hiding in the misty haze that blanketed the night. I...
by Guest Author | Dec 23, 2020 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
After you’ve written your first (or second or third) draft, it’s time to go through your manuscript and cut out any unneeded words cluttering it up. Wordiness muddles your message, slows momentum, and drags an anchor through the forward movement of your story. Any of...
by Guest Author | Dec 16, 2020 | All Posts, Guest Authors, Writing Tips
There’s no shortage of professional book marketing advice out there. But despite volumes of recommendations about author websites, social media, newsletters, and public relations, one author dilemma rarely gets addressed, and it’s the most simple and basic of them...
by Guest Author | Dec 9, 2020 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
I’ve tried to catch Santa out for three years, and still I’ve had no success! Even with my best whisperer and hunter, Curly Whiskers, we’ve failed. I know what you’re thinking – why would a cat be trying to catch Santa Claus? The thing is, the tuna in the...
by Guest Author | Dec 3, 2020 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
we’re all writing a story. let it be a ‘thank you’ tale, the kind that leaps into every breath, into each crevice of your bones. let your blinks and beats, steps and songs, sing thanks. for pollen dust and leaf spines. for the cells that...
by Guest Author | Nov 28, 2020 | All Posts, Fiction, Guest Authors
The most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen was a sheep walking the opposite direction from the rest of the herd. Whether its goal was to be knighted, to wander alone, or to merely flow against the grain was irrelevant. Simply that it found the sand to turn and part...
