Being An Indie Novelist is Tough, But Rewarding

It’s time to rant. I haven’t had serious time to work on the second book in my science-fiction series because I have been swamped with the day job, and swamped with my side jobs. I’m a high school English teacher by trade, and at the start of the year I had things under control.  However,

How to Use Slang When Writing Dialogue

I wrote 5000 words like a boss yesterday and it only took me two hours to bang it out! The U.S. of After, the first part of my new novel This Broken Earth arrives in digital book stores on August 1st, and I’m nearing the completion of the first draft.  Each chapter of the novel is