The making of a horror novelist.
What can writers do in that awkward, unbalanced writing time between mid December and the New Year? I’ve got 22 fun ideas! Update your email signature to link to your website.Read a book totally outside your genre.Stay up way past your bedtime and observe the winter (for those in the northern hemisphere) starry sky. Often … Continue reading December To-Do’s for Writers
Today I’m sharing how I created a new author photo for my website. I hope it’ll help those of you who want to update your own photo. Thanks to the readers who asked me how I went about it. You inspired this blog post. I figure there are four levels of author images on a … Continue reading DIY Author Photo
I learned three big lessons when I attended the Roanoke Author Invasion book festival earlier this month. (I attended as a reader, sigh, but some day . . . ! ) Lesson Numero Uno Authors are super nice in person and are happy to talk about their books and their writing processes. The authors I … Continue reading 3 Big Lessons from the Roanoke Author Invasion
The good thing about starting from zero as a newbie writer and building an author platform is I get to choose where and how I want to express myself. It’s like starting with a painter’s minimalist landscape, empty and not populated by houses or people (a dark landscape of course . . . because there … Continue reading Creating an Author Platform
