Charity Anthologies

  As writers, one of the ways we can support causes we believe in is donating words. When a generous editor puts together an anthology to benefit a charity organization, donating a story gives us a chance to help. I’ve Read more

Writing Shared Worlds

One of the fun things about being part of an author community is the chance to write in a shared project. I haven’t yet co-written anything. (Not sure any other author could live with my pantsing process.) But I’ve done Read more

It’s all one world

It‘s being driven home to me lately, both how completely interdependent we are around the world, and also how insular we are in our ideas and our awareness. Books can be a window to that wider world, even when they’re Read more

Preorders

I didn’t start doing preorders until recently. Part of that was anxiety— I’m one of those people who isn’t prepared way in advance, and what if I couldn’t get a book done in time?  I wasn’t going to put up Read more

Burnout (Not me, this time…)

…but burnout and loss of confidence are things that happen to many authors, sometimes unpredictably. I just saw a favorite author, who had a successful book out in November, say she hasn’t written a word since October. Sometimes a book Read more

Applause for Cover Artists

Covers are always a topic of discussion in the genre. Trends come and go. Two guys photoshopped together may now be considered old fashioned. Single interesting men became much more common. (Adding a bit more difficulty in discriminating M/M from Read more