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Navigating The Pitfalls of Publishing
Navigating The Pitfalls of Publishing When I completed the first draft of The Soothsayer I honestly thought a quick edit and perhaps some query letters to agents or publishers would finalize my writing journey. HA! Yeah, that was dumb. The truth is in today's online...
Finding Justice in 2020
“Okay that’s it!” I fumed. It was 3 AM and my wife and I had barely slept an hour before the jerks in the hotel room next to ours started screaming and arguing again. It was our second night in Boise, and our second night of dealing with these knuckleheads. I tossed...
Don’t wait for your miracle. Take the First Step
It’s been well over a month since the world shut down and we all learned what quarantine means - though how we choose to handle it differs wildly. Some people have stayed glued to their TV’s and news feeds, counting the daily numbers of sick, recovered, and reported...
Don’t Babel, Listen
I didn’t want to be outside in my bathrobe, sneakers and worn Old Navy cap, leashed to my Bichon, Duke, while he dumped in the bushes, but the fuzzy one demanded it. 9 PM on any January night is not a great time to be out, the wind howls and leaves my feet and hands...
Constructive vs. Destructive Feedback
If you’ve ever put pen to page and then had the “balls” to allow others to read it - you’ve no doubt gotten some kind of feedback - of which some will be bad. And you, like every single author or writer before you, has no doubt had the internal debate on how to react...
A Certain Point of View
Writing is a demanding craft that forces an author to not only play out a story in a compelling way but to pull the readers into a world that can only be shown through words. The best tool in our arsenal for this daunting feat is point of view - yet so few people seem...