Thanks to Susan for the chance to guest post today! We are Infinite Ink—a collective of nine indie authors who write YA and NA speculative fiction—and we’re here to tell you why you should think about joining (or forming) an author collective, too. Hold on, back up, you say. What is an author collective? It’s a group of authors who… Read More
Giving up on my dream is what finally made it come true. Six years into my writing journey I was as yet unpublished when I learned an acquaintance sold a book to a publisher and it sent me spiraling into an ugly pit of jealousy and despair. I’d been writing so much longer than the other author. I was a… Read More
One midwinter evening, I went to a talk given by a master gardener at Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh. This woman spoke for an hour while building miniature gardens, casually, as if with her mind on something else. She was not speechifying, just talking. She mentioned her husband and daughters in passing—everything was part of everything else—while those gardens flew together… Read More
Welcome to The Stone of Valhalla Blog Tour! A middle-grade fantasy-adventure by Mikey Brooks. Don’t forget to check out the GIVEAWAY at the bottom this post for a chance to WIN a $25 Amazon Gift card and other great prizes! Synopsis: Aaron was chosen to save their world, but it might come at the cost of losing his own. Breaking… Read More
Challenging Destiny by Cherie Colyer is now available on Kindle and to celebrate Cherie’s throwing a party and giving away fun prizes! CHALLENGING DESTINY Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Kindle Release Date: March 27, 2014 Worldwide Release Date: July 11, 2014 Synopsis: Logan Ragsdale and his younger sister, Ariana, have been marked, chosen to be unwilling participants in a war… Read More
Besides creativity and imagination, perhaps nothing is more important to a writer than his tools. There are no shortage of tools available to writers today. There are apps, and timers, and internet blockers, and whatever you might need to over come whatever ails you. All that said, the writer’s main tool is his word processor. This is where he’ll live,… Read More