This is not a drill, folks. I hear tell blogging died a long time ago. Well, guess what? Necromancy is a thing! I have need of this space, ...

Reason #1: Because the intersection represented in this not-to-scale diagram is very small. The red circle is the real killer. That ...

I'm officially lowering my commitment to this blog, for obvious reasons . I will keep up the First Impact posts as long as I have submi...

As a kid, I was taught that D&D is of the devil, but the reality is much, much worse. Yup. Good times. Good times. I realize it...

I'm taking a week-long break from blogging for this reason . Things should return to their regular schedule next Monday. Here's a ...

It needs to be fun. Make it so.

About a year ago, I took a look at the growth of this blog , what I thought was working and wasn't. It looks like a heck of a lot has ch...

Every time I see a blog shutdown, or hear someone lament how nobody reads blogs anymore, I get all worried. "Is my blog a waste of time...

If I were to, say, run semi-regular contests around here, what sorts of prizes would you be most interested in, do you think? poll by ...

I don't technically have a critique group. I don't meet with other writers on a regular basis, and the only person who sees my chapt...

A little while ago, The Intern had an interesting post on how much (or how little) social media promotion efforts affect sales . She challen...

In the last couple of months, I've seen a LOT of bloggers suffering blog fatigue: that thing where they lose interest or don't kno...

They say -- quite rightly -- that the most effective kind of publicity is word of mouth. But in my experience, word of mouth has two kinds...

Unpublished writers' blogs are a strange beast. They're part community-building, part writing practice, and part planning for a hope...

You may have noticed that Susan's guest post went up on Tuesday -- normally an off-day for Author's Echo -- but also that there was ...

It is 2011. The internet as we know it is old. It's older than the Matrix and Star Wars Special Edition. It was born in a time when Mic...

Everyone says you need a professional-looking website, but a professional setup and design can cost hundreds of dollars and a monthly hostin...

At the risk of spoiling the magic , I thought some of you might benefit from knowing how I do things around here. Here goes. THE SCHEDULE ...

I want to take a look at how a blog grows, what does and does not affect it, what you can do to... Okay, that's a lie. I just want to ...

This blog is going quiet for a couple of weeks for obvious reasons. Not that Thailand celebrates Christmas, but our family does, as do the 7...