Dear Blog Followers…What’s Your Biggest Hurdle?

This blog post is simple and to the point:  What is your biggest hurdle as a writer?  I’d love to write a blog post about anything you are dealing with as a writer, and hopefully I can help with tips or suggestions.  If you wish to remain anonymous, then send a message on the contact

New Podcast Up: What Would Make You Quit Writing?

Today Ryan posed an interesting question: “What would make you quit writing?”  When we recorded this podcast, Ryan hadn’t written anything in nearly a month, and was really bogged down in it.  Maybe you are suffering from the same problem.  Should you continue or hang it up?  I think we have some very good answers

My Guest Post: Jonathan Gunson

Today over on author Jonathan Gunson’s website, Bestseller Labs, my guest post has been published. You can check it out here.

New Podcast Up: Layering Plots and Breaking Bad #writetip

In today’s fresh new podcast, Ryan and I discuss the importance of layering a plot so that it is not simply one dimensional.  How do we do this, though, if we don’t have an English degree?  There are many ways to layer a plot so that it is much more complex and interesting to a

Blog Spam Is Sometimes Hilarious

I am not really sure where it comes from, but I will often get comments to my blog posts that are…well…nonsensical spam.  Today I decided to post some examples of this for your enjoyment, and since this is a blog about writing, the sad thing would be that these writers are wasting their time writing this

3 Things I Learned from Tom Clancy

Yesterday the world lost a prolific and well known writer.  Tom Clancy passed away at the age of 66, leaving behind a massive list of best selling novels, books that inspired movies and a host of video games. But what did Clancy have to teach us?  I’m sure there will never be any Tom Clancy

My Horrible Dream About the Zack Snyder Batman Movie

As a writer, one of my richest sources for material comes from my dreams, but I had a sort of odd nightmare last night that so disturbed me that I had to write about it in today’s blog.  It should produce a chuckle or two. As you can see above, I have done the best

New Podcast Up: NO BATFLEK!!

In this latest podcast I discuss the success that I had with the 5 day free promotion and with Kindle Direct Publishing.  It appears I may have sold a few books through it…or more than a few. We also rant for a while about the recent choice to stuff Ben Afflek’s marshmallowy head into the

Podcasting: An Untapped Marketing Strategy

To date there are literally millions of podcasts out there each with a different subject to hock at us, most of them informational or for entertainment. Currently Ryan McKinley and I are recording a podcast called Fanboys on Fiction, and we are getting some regular hits on iTunes and on the host site, Podomatic.com.  However, I

My Daughter’s Gift

Last night I lay in bed with laptop open, writing away at Come Apart, my newest WIP.  Due to school starting up, the self-imposed renovation of my classroom, the induction of several new alternative education students into my program and a myriad of other things I have been neglecting it. It is always difficult to pick