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, ...

Hey, look! A post! Let's talk a bit about online presence—how writers and other creatives are told (or expected) to have one whether t...

I don't remember why, but decades ago I decided, as part of reflecting on the day, I would name whatever good things had happened that d...

My hand-crafted echo chambers are full of mourning and outrage (with a sprinkling of praises and celebration). Reading through it is hard an...

If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook then you may have noticed that I took the last two weeks off from social media. So there were a...

I had a little rant on Twitter earlier. It's primarily in response to Donald Trump's terrifying implication that maybe 2nd Amendment...

Cybermobbing is getting ridiculous. I mean the entire spectrum here: public shaming, online bullying, harassment, and the general dickery th...

So I'm out of First Impact subs. I will continue to accept submissions as they come in (because, hey, one less post to think up), and Se...

I once stated that I thought it was possible to respond to a negative review in a positive way (see the first footnote of this post ). I am ...

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...

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...

It's a little frightening to me how well my social media experience maps onto my high school ones. This is a picture of how. Your mileag...

I don't automatically follow people back on social media, but once I decide to follow someone, I rarely unfollow. Unfortunately, it does...

I know this is going to cause a swath of readers freaking out wondering, "Am I good enough? Will Adam unfollow me too?!" Because, ...

I have kind of a love-hate thing with Twitter. On the one hand, I've gotten to know some awesome people because of it. Because of my ra...

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 ...

NOTE: Apparently, I'm not the only one who decided it was Critique Week. On Monday, LT Host wrote about the different kind of beta reade...

I've decided (somewhat randomly) this is going to be Critique Week on Author's Echo. Some of this stuff I've said before, but fi...

I don't actually like the Followers widget on the sidebar there. I mean, yes, it feels nice every time the number goes up, but it...