It happens - your marketing has paid off and you've been able to squirrel away some money; or even better, you're earning a steady stream...

I'm defining "mid-budget" as between $300 - $500. This could be a one-time spend or what you can afford to do monthly. However it works...

In today's economy, there is something to be said for keeping overhead costs around the $Free.99 level as much as possible. For the newly...

You've come this far, might as well see it through to "The End", eh? If you've followed the exercises in this month's blog series, you...

Last week we set up our sections and established some foundational pieces on which we can now build our manuscript drafts, marketing...

Time's a-wasin'. Let's get rolling on building our books... Grab your Build-a-Book supplies, be they analog or digital. We're going to...

Even before you self-publish, you can bring a version of your book to life. Think of this as building a three-dimensional vision "board"...

I recently did some work for my "little" brother (he stands a good six inches taller than me). He wrote a self-help/memoir a few years...

Time to flex those story-arcing muscles. I know you have what it takes to build a story from a spark of inspiration. So here's an...

Story by Robert McKee is how I was introduced to the Story Arc, a traditional way to tell a story that has proven to be the foundational...

Inspiration - the spark that ignites the flame of an idea that then leads to the creation of something new. It can come in the form of so...

Plans are all well and good but unless you take action; unless you DO something, then it's all just a bunch of words on a page or images...

You're sitting in your living room, looking through your (whatever it is you use to track your to-dos and such), and you notice several...

"...Do better." - Dr. Maya Angelou Let's continue planning for 2024. You've gathered quite a bit of intel from your reflection on 2023....

I will spare you the rah-rah speech that most often gets hurled at you during this time of year. You know what I'm talking about - all...

Today, I’m sharing with you six of the scenes that scared me silly, from some of my favorite horror movies. These are in no particular...

Can’t believe I didn’t post this one first. This is, after all, a blog by a writer. Why on Earth am I just now thinking of the scariest...

Let’s talk television. For a while there, TV shows knew how to bring the chills without all the gore, then came cable, then came the...

As a teenager, I loved the macabre - from books to movies, if it had anything to do with monsters, ghosts, and other assorted creeps, I...

Hey baby. Damn, you sho looking good in that dress. Why don't you come here and talk to me for a minute? Yo', I'm talking to you! What,...