by Velda Brotherton   One of the worst things editors or critique groups can do is change a writer’s voice. So how do we recogni...

Almost six years ago, I heard those words we who write yearn to hear; a publisher said yes. The next step, I assumed, would be to lean bac...

Marlon James The Caribbean is my birthplace and my current home, so it's with more than a soupçon of pride that I read the news last...

I’m often asked how what I do—writing media tie-in fiction—differs from writing “fan fiction.” There’s been a slight increase in this sort o...

  I guess everybody knows American Pharoah won the Triple Crown, the ultimate honor in horseracing and the first horse to accomplish that...

Computers may be a boon but they can also be a hammer blow to the ego. Especially when Twitter is full of other author's good news. Book...

This is a recycled post I wrote for Literary Musings during my Hurricane of the Heart July - August Bewitching blog tour. Enjoy! So you wa...