I’ve seen a lot of things going around about various services targeted at querying or soon-to-be-querying writers. I thought I’d weigh in on what has value and what doesn’t. Note: I’m specifically talking about services for authors pursuing traditional publishing. NONE of this applies to those who are intending to self publish. That’s a different...

As I progress in my still fledgling career, I find that I’m often giving advice to other writers. Given where I am, with 3 books in the world and another on the way in February, one of the groups of people I can often help is debut authors. This is going to be a really...

Talk about literary agents — good agents, bad agents — is making it’s annual rounds on twitter, and I’m not big on making long threads, so here we are. If you’re interested in this topic, I did a post a couple years back about what your agent does for you. It’s not updated, but it...

As the most stressful part of Pitch Wars approaches — wait, you didn’t think the other parts were stressful, did you? Huh. Well, carry on, I guess. Nothing to see here. Of course I’m talking about the agent showcase. A lot of you are going to stress about it, regardless of what I tell you....

I’m behind on my novel. Let me clarify that. I’m behind where I want to be on my novel–where I need to be to reasonably make my deadline. So let’s take a look at how I got here. Despite 2020 being what it was, I had a pretty good second half of the year writing....