Those of you who saw my post about my super ridiculous September may want to know how I made out. Here are where things stand on all things...

The aftermath of my trip to California has kept me ridiculously busy, but I've finally snuck a little time to answer another question. A...

I hate having only First Impact posts go up, but I am trying to make money at this writing thing, so. Anyway, here are some of the things I...

It's been a long time since I've given you guys anything like a regular status update. I mean, there's my Works In Progress tab ...

I've been working on revisions for Post-Apoc Ninjas , and it's been taking way too long. I once again have questioned whether I rea...

So when Tricia asked me for revisions , one of the things she wanted (which I totally agreed with) required adding one or two new characte...

You may or may not know by now that Air Pirates is out there on submission. Meaning honest to God editors are reading it. Submitting to edit...

If you don't remember, I suck at description . But that means I learn obvious lessons all the time and can pass the savings on to you! ...

To me, writing a novel -- trying to make a dozen characters and themes and motivations and goals all fit together in one comprehensible mass...

There's a lot of waiting coming up in the next few months, in which I have to just hope that Air Pirates is good enough. In which I have...

Many of you have been asking to see my query letter. Well, today's the day. To see the Air Pirates query, along with comments from mysel...

Cross-posted from Anthdrawlogy 's Holidays week. The floating lanterns are stolen from Thailand's Loi Kratong festival , but the sce...

(I've been using my temporary insanity tag a lot lately. That's what querying will do to you, I guess.) So here are statistics on ...

You've all read everything leading up to this post, right? Cuz if you think querying is all excitement and roses, you should go back and...

I don't know about you, but when I read these stories, I'm always more interested in how long and difficult the journey was (it enco...

Three and a half years ago, I started this blog just so I could type this sentence: I HAVE AN AGENT. I am now repre...

As of this morning (last night for you in the Americas), the first draft of Post-Apocalyptic Dragon-Riding Ninjas (with Mechs!) is finished...

If you've been learning the craft for a while, you've heard the rules. Don't start with a character waking up. Don't start w...

A couple weeks ago, blog reader Lexi left this comment : I'm interested in why you guys aren't self-publishing. It needn't...

They say when you don't know what happens next, or when the story is slowing down, the best thing to do is throw rocks at the characters...