The Happy Jar

Hello all! I’m C.S. Poe, back with another monthly post, here at Love Bytes. 2016 has been a fairly stressful year, I think a lot of us can agree on that. So I decided to start keeping a happy jar. Read more

Will I see you at GRL?

Hi everyone! This is only going to be a very short post this month, because as always I’m totally disorganised, and I suddenly realised I leave for the US in two days and have not even started packing. This is Read more

Creating Distinct Character Voices

In the last 5 years, I’ve published 59 main character guys (an odd number because of having three in Changes Coming Down) … oh, and Sam, in The Family We Make. So sixty men. One of my biggest challenges is Read more

Falling Leave and Falling Temps

When I was younger I couldn’t wait to get out of Michigan. I fled to Florida the first chance I got. I spent five years there and loved it but was surprised at how much I missed the changing of Read more

A Spark of Something New

Last month,  I wrote about how I was going to take some time off from the pressure of writing. I was tapped out, drained, and trying to force the words really wasn’t working. I was hoping a trip to the Read more

Reality Mining

When you’re mining real life stories for inspiration, where is the line?