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...

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 seen actors promoting a movie and it’s clear that they’re just over it? I’m not talking about big spots, like when they’re on with Kimmel or Fallon. I mean when they’ve obviously had a long day talking to random reporters for magazines you haven’t heard of and everybody is asking them the...

Somewhere, there’s an IRS agent who is going to be looking at my taxes and wondering what on earth is happening. If you’re reading, IRS person, I promise I’m not cheating. In fact, let this post be a reference for why you don’t need to audit me. The business side of writing is, on its...

You see the term ‘Mid-List’ author thrown around a lot, but we don’t ever really talk about what it means, so I thought I’d share my thoughts about it from my perspective. After all, I am a midlist author, so I probably have some insight. As with everything publishing, this is just an opinion. Midlist...

I wrote a twitter joke about needing people to read my book so they could tell me if it’s good or not. I mean…I was kind of joking. You know the type of thing where you throw it out there and sort of mean it but ha ha, yeah, I’m joking. Mostly. I’ve got a...

So I made a poll on twitter and asked people to choose my next blog post. I gave them three choices. A post about science fiction books, a topic on which I am well-versed and somewhat of a minor expert. A post on writing craft, on which…well, I’m pretty good, if I do say so...

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...