Category Archives: News & Updates

What I’m reading. While I’m writing!

What I’m reading

While I’m writing!

Reading something similar to what you’re writing, while you’re writing it, is not generally recommended. It can be a distraction. Or another excuse to procrastinate. I’m doing research! When you’re also a writer it’s hard not to be a critical reader, analyzing every word choice, every paragraph break, and following...
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Be Nice! Or be awful?  

Be Nice! 

Or be awful?  

In discussions with other authors and listening to agents and publishers trying to pick the next breakthrough blockbuster novel it becomes ever more clear that no one really knows what makes for a bestseller. No one can confidently and consistently predict it in advance, nor explain it after the fact. Everyone has...
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Hello 2026 – Another year of Mystery, Plot Twists, and Terror?

Hello 2026

Another year of Mystery, Plot Twists, and Terror?

I’m not just talking about what you’re reading or writing, I’m talking about the real world we’re living in. Last year gave us the shock of a world ruled by competing superpowers and the chaos created by an American President who is a ruthless reckless egomaniac exercising...
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Happy Holidays & Happy New Year!

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