How do Royalties Work for Published Authors?
Published Authors and Royalties Here is the truth no one enjoys printing in glossy brochures: royalties are not magic money. They [...]
Goodness vs Character Flaws
It seems like writing about good people makes the book boring. If the characters have flaws, plus some dramatic situations are [...]
Dealing With Rejection
Rejection is the only honest editor most writers will ever have. It arrives uninvited. It does not read your work the [...]
Why Authors Should Design Their Own Book Covers
(and Stop Chasing Approval) Why You Should Design Your Own Book Cover (Even If It Terrifies You) You’ve written the story. [...]
Feedback on Excerpts
Excerpts Lie Here is the strange little ritual we’ve all agreed to participate in. A writer appears, pale and hopeful, holding [...]
Dark Flash Fiction: Structure, Rhythm & Impact
Dark flash fiction lives in the narrow corridor between silence and shock. It is brief, compressed, and often brutal. Where longer [...]
Dealing with Negative Feedback
Negative Feedback is a Pain Here is the uncomfortable truth no one sells in creative writing courses, right between “find your [...]
Fonts and Genre Connection
Fonts. The quiet dictators of taste. The invisible hands shaping how your words breathe, walk, or trip over themselves. Most writers [...]
Atmospheric & Mythic Fiction: An Essential Guide to Liminal Storytelling
Atmospheric & Mythic Fiction Some stories live in the spaces between things, between waking and dreaming, memory and myth, the [...]
Writer’s Block and Other Elegant Excuses
Writer’s block is marketed like a disease with a personality. Moody. Elusive. Feminine, usually. Something that “visits” writers, as if the [...]
