To write every day, or not—that seems to be the question most "writers" ask. The answer to one of the most asked questions in the...

With just a few weeks left in 2019, I'd like to give a shout-out to a few of my absolute favorite reads of the year (so far) and just...

A new year and a new decade are less than a month away! Yeah, I can't fecking believe it, either, but here we are. This is the perfect...

It's really hard to believe that my debut novel, Far From Grace, is now only eleven months away from publication! People have asked me if...

This is not a drill! I repeat: THIS IS NOT A DRILL! The time has come to reveal the title of my debut novel. Awww, yeah! Chick a bow wow....

It's been a bit since I posted a new blog, but things have been anything but uneventful over here! Let's catch up. Shall we? Last year,...

"Have You Eaten Grandma?" by Gyles Brandreth HYEG is a grammar and usage book that's an awful lot of fun to read. It's not very often...

"Dreyer's English" by Benjamin Dreyer Benjamin Dreyer is the executive managing editor and copy chief at Random House, which makes his...

Art isn't easy, but is it one part inspiration and ninety-nine parts perspiration, or the other way around? How would you define...

2019 is now less than four hours away — if you're on the East Coast in the US, like me! Let's put the setbacks and failures of 2018...

Or, How I Wrote My First Novel Without Losing My Sanity!* (most of my sanity) This year, over the course of four arduous months, I wrote...

"Story Trumps Structure" by Steven James If November's writing book of the month was a gift for the plotters out there, then December's...

The work is hard. Let's be honest — it's really hard. How many times have you sat down and toiled away on several pages only to throw...

Aside from "writer's block," the most cited cause for not writing among writers is... drum roll, please... "I just don't have time to...

"Save the Cat! Writes a Novel" by Jessica Brody I will always have a soft-spot for Save the Cat! and the late Blake Snyder. For the...

TRICK November 1. 2:38am. Vic spotted the older man first, zeroing in on the limping fellow as their van drove down the deserted Main...

Happy Halloween, and happy birthday, Kane! To celebrate Kane's first birthday, you can now read The Little Things: a tiny terror for free...

Kane was an odd-looking fellow — as tall as Geoff was short, gaunt, with equally long, thin extremities. His skin was almost as creamy...

"On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft" by Stephen King Let me preface this review by saying I love Stephen King. Like so many others, he is...

I completed the second draft of my debut novel "The Belles of St. Mary's" over the weekend. What a rush! Three-hundred and forty-seven...