I’ve been thinking about this post for a while now. I wasn’t sure if I was going to write it or not. One wise person told me that if I did, I was going to get dragged all over the internet. And perhaps I will. Or perhaps I’m overdramatizing. I’m a writer. It’s in my...

Every year I make a point to read some indie science fiction, and my favorite last year was GOODBYE TO THE SUN by Jonathan Nevair. So much so that you can see what I said about it on the cover of the newly released version. I don’t say things about books if I don’t mean...

With the news on changes at Twitter, we’re already seeing changes to writing twitter. I’ve seen a number of announcements by people who are leaving. Ironically, that’s the most Twitter response ever — that call to act immediately or you’re #NotDoingYourPart. I’m not leaving Twitter today. And it’s not because I don’t think what is...

I talk to a lot of authors. Really. A lot. Probably more than even most authors, though as a rule, a lot of authors talk to a lot of other authors. Having debuted in 2018, in the past four years I’ve specifically talked to a lot of debut authors–my peers back when I was a...

I saw a thing going around the other day, as happens from time to time, bemoaning the insider nature of publishing, and specifically bemoaning writer cliques, so I thought I’d address that. First off, I hate the word clique. But that’s just because it’s a homonym and homonyms are the devil, because they remind us...

Adam Oyebanji is the debut author of the novel BRAKING DAY, available now everywhere you buy books. I had a chance to read it early, because, well, my job is great like that. It’s a story about a generation ship nearing its destination and about to start slowing down…hence, Braking Day. After over a century...

There are no universal rules in writing. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t rules. It’s just that you have to figure out the rules that work for you. These are my rules. They work for me. That doesn’t mean they’ll work for you. They are neither right nor wrong, because, as I said, there...

There was a lot of talk in the publishing world last week about people leaving low paying publishing jobs. That was about editors, not authors, so I’m not really qualified to talk about it beyond waving my hands and shouting that ‘this is not good!’ Yet here I am. My posts about the publishing business...

Have you ever watched movie actors doing promotional interviews and it’s really clear that they’ve been answering the same questions for different outlets all day, and they’re just over it? It’s not the same for writers, as most of us don’t do all of our promotion in the same day, but sometimes it feels a...

Pitch Wars is gone. Here’s what I know: when something that big disappears, it leaves a vacuum, and the only thing I remember from science class is that nature abhors a vacuum. So something (or more likely, somethings) are going to show up in the space. So, here’s some advice from someone who has seen...