David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

The Mask of Atreus

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

House of Cards

It’s not just length; stamina matters too.

A late-arriving comment on my Not A Zero-Sum Game rant inspires today’s post (which, to my delight, segues nicely from David’s post yesterday). I mentioned then that THE PRETENDER’S CROWN (which you can, until Thursday, enter a contest to win a copy of over here came in at 171K and 300 hours or so of [...]

Turns Out, Length Really Does Matter….

As with last week’s post, I draw my inspiration for this post from several questions and comments we received from readers dealing with novel length.  In fact, this is something that I’m asked about quite a bit on my personal blogs and at my web site, and most of the questions sound a bit like [...]

There’s Nothing New…

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
(Ecclesiastes 1:9-14 NIV)

A sixth grader approached my desk today, all excited. “You didn’t tell us your next book was ready!” he said, waving a hardcover book he’d pulled from the shelf. I smiled [...]

Pink Elephants, and Rivers, and Gilligan, Oh MY! (And Writing)

 Last week, Christina spoke about dry spells in the area of idea creation:
Some writers say that ideas are just overflowing with them. I’m not one of them. I go through serious dry spells on ideas. And when I do, I try to read other things or watch TV shows to [...]

Creating a web presence

I was going to hit the Topic of the Week, but really, I think David nailed it with yesterday’s post and I can’t think of anything else to add, so I’m going to bring up another question a MW regular asked in email: how, in essence, does one create a web presence? As the reader [...]

Why Divide Your Book Into Chapters?

Thanks to regular visitor and commenter Daniel Davis for again coming up with a question to get us started with this week’s post.  And before I get to Daniel’s question, let me add that we welcome your questions and suggestions for posts you’d like to see.  We often scour our brains for ideas that we [...]