Novel Spaces is celebrating its 10th anniversary! To celebrate, we're sharing some of the most popular posts from our archives. This on...

Novel Spaces is in its 10th year! Over the coming months we'll be featuring some of the most popular posts from our archives. This one ...

Novel Spaces is in its 10th year! Over the coming months we'll be featuring some of the most popular posts from our archives. This one ...

by Maggie King As a devotee of Nancy Drew, I wrote mysteries in grade school. In high school I poured my considerable adolescent ang...

A coconut palm, an almond tree and a flamboyant tree stood in the gentle breeze of a Caribbean island. Suddenly the winds sprang up and a hu...

My husband and I enjoyed all our major visits—Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado, Antelope Canyon, Horseshoe Bend of the...

I haven’t been without some sort of regular paid job since I was 16 years old. In the thirty odd years since then, I’ve worked as a groundsk...

Lesley A. Diehl Lesley retired from her life as a professor of psychology and reclaimed her country roots by moving to a small cottage i...

Melodie got her start writing comedy. In 1999, she opened the Canadian Humour Conference. She has over 200 publications including 100 comed...

The beauty of being an author is that within the pages of your book you can become whoever you choose to be. In one book, you get to be the ...

I’ve said before that I don’t really believe in “writer’s block.” What I mean by that is that I generally don’t like to use it as an excuse ...

One of the downsides of being a full-time work-at-home employee for my day job is that by the time the weekend rolls around, I’m really rath...

Within the space of a month, three authors who've been inspirations to uncounted readers and writers were taken from us. On August 20th,...

Fifteen years ago this summer, the first story I ever sold to a professional paying market was published. It was for a writing contest, the ...

On a glorious Friday last month, I along with my wife and several of my fellow Star Trek writer friends and colleagues were treated to a sp...

Photo by Theo Ferguson, Hummingbird rescue at Yerette When I read Liane's post on Henry Miller's commandments I was a bit dist...