This week’s question is, how do you level up as a writer?  And that’s a really good question.  For me, the big answer is by lifting EVERYONE up.  The rising […]

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If you’ve been paying attention to me and my various babbling on writing, you know I’m a big fan of the outline.  I try to avoid the whole “paint myself […]

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Everyday, my social media feeds are kind of an assault. Like, the world is a trash fire and there are tweets and links and stories pretty much every hour on […]

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So, some seven years ago I made a decision that made a lot of sense at the time.  I had a website and a blog, but I wasn’t doing much […]

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“Where do you get your ideas?” is the question put to authors a lot, and it’s fundamentally the wrong question. The ideas are always out there.  They are almost irrelevant.  If you’re […]

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It’s been a busy weekend, friends, so I’ll just share some quick news.  In a couple months we’ll be getting the second German Maradaine novel, DIE CHRONIKEN VON MARADAINE – DIE […]

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Talking about my current WIP is a bit odd, because it’s the sequel to a book that you all haven’t read yet.  I mean, I could talk about my favorite […]

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Hello, Readers: The end of May is turning into a busy time, both in terms of writing and with various things on the homefront.  (My son is graduating from high […]

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Titles are a strange beast in this business.  On some level, they’re immaterial to the book, in and of itself.  The title is there for marketing purposes, a quick and […]

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It was just Mother’s Day, so what better way to celebrate than to remember my favorite fictional mother, Satrine Rainey, heroine of the Maradaine Constabulary books. Especially since German Satrine […]

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