Three new titles are coming your way over the next six months. The season of giving is fast approaching. What better gift to give a loved one than a rollicking good story? While you can go to Amazon.com right now and pick up Dawn Trouble, Fresh Starts, and A Night to Remember (all awesome), there are more titles coming your way! Thanksgiving Day (that’s November 24th for you lovely non-American folks) will see the wide release of A Night to Remember both in ebook and in revamped paperback (different layout, different format, same fun story)…. Read Article →
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October 27th at Tattered Cover in Colorado Springs Please, join me for a book signing event at Colorado Springs’ newest bookstore, Tattered Cover. Featured authors from Pikes Peak Writers will be on hand to sign both Dream (2022) and Fresh Starts (2021). My story Dawn Trouble features in the latter. So come and explore the newest addition to our region’s bookselling scene at 112 N Tejon St. While browsing, pick up copies of the two PPW anthologies and get them signed at our author table. Chat with us, we’re pretty nice folks. Pikes Peak Writers… Read Article →
Part 2: Print Resources This second part of A Writer’s Toolbox covers the print resources I keep close at hand to aid in my fiction writing. If you missed part one about the online resources I use, you can check it out here. I’ll admit, I’m not as quick to buy a printed book as I once was. With ebooks and audiobooks, I consume perhaps 20% of the print books I used to. So, when I do buy a book, it’s one I know I will reread. That goes double for instructional resources. The following… Read Article →
Part 1: Online Resources Writers need tools they can rely on to help build their best story, edit it, publish and publicize it. Unfortunately, much like the hardware section at Lowe’s, the plethora of options can be overwhelming. In this two-part series, I will share what I use and invite you to comment with tools you have in your writer’s toolbox. This first part will take a look at online resources. Let’s face it, most of the time it’s easier to throw a search into Duck Duck Go (or [sigh] Google) than it is to… Read Article →
Writers conferences are fuel for my creativity. Gathering together with hundreds of other creatives generates a vibe, a visceral buzz and hum of energy that floods my circuits with a desire to knock out twenty-thousand words at one go. I love writers conferences. At least the ones I’ve been to. I started attending writers conferences in 2016 with the Pikes Peak Writers Conference (my home, first conference, and first love). That year I met NYT bestselling authors Kevin J. Anderson, Rachel Caine, Joe R. Lansdale, Jeff Lindsay, and Wendy Corsi Staub. My story idea–for I… Read Article →
Becca Syme’s book helped me know what I knew and to do it. For the last month I have studied Becca Syme’s seminal book Dear Writer, You Need to Quit. This book is now on my tight little shelf with the other essential works for writers I keep at my desk. Each chapter showed me–and in many cases confirmed for me–what I needed to quit in my writing life. This book is not about whether or not one should quit writing (though it opens the reader to that option). It is more of a list… Read Article →
Yes! With a Slight Correction Pikes Peak Writers is an organization nearly thirty years old. Since its inception PPW has served writers through education, networking, and promotion. The organization posts a regular author promotional called Sweet Success, highlighting recent publications or events in the lives of member authors. I love PPW. It’s my author home. Well, the latest Sweet Success featured me and my quirky novella A Night to Remember, which came out in paperback last month and scored really high in several genre categories on Amazon.com. My thanks to you, my friends and readers…. Read Article →