I’m writing this post on vacation, and I realize that I need more than an hour of Internet access per day. If I want to get anything concrete done, that is. And it’s not my fault. The things I want to do on the Internet each day, if I could just do them quickly, would […]
Like most of the e-reading world, I’m anxious for the release of Alan McDermott’s next Tom Gray novel. I’m thrilled to be able to say that Amazon is releasing Gray Retribution on July 8, just a few weeks from now. For you legions of Tom Gray fans, it features the characters you’ve grown to love […]
Image courtest Nicu’s Photoblog.Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License. It’s the basis of just about every story: right versus wrong, good guys against bad guys, the appeal of the bad boy … Something I’ve been wondering about for a long time is that, outside of literature, evil-doers don’t seem to consider themselves […]
Creative Commons Guest post by Samreen Ahsan “Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L’Amour After I published my first novel, A Silent Prayer, many people around me asked what truly inspired me for writing or more precisely—what made me write? I never knew […]
I’ve been a fan of 24 since it launched. It’s never failed to deliver a season of 24 hours (minus commercials) of riveting television that leaves you breathless. So you know where my butt will be for the next 10 Monday nights: on the couch in front of my TV set for the half-season. I […]
Guest post by Kevin Johns, author and creative writing coach You may be surprised to learn that, as a writer, the best thing I have ever done didn’t involve plotting a story, crafting a poem, or composing the lyrics to a song. Rather, it was a simple email that I wrote and sent to […]
Don’t you just hate it when you see a typo in work you’ve just published, posted on a website or sent to a client? Creative Commons image: Wikihow Every writer needs to learn how to proofread. As a professional editor for over 30 years, I have a few favourite techniques for effective proofreading. Here are […]