The new normal and my latest release

When I last visited Love Bytes, I spoke about the impact of being forced to stay at home and how my daily writing life had changed. I spoke about the impact on my productivity due to a house full of Read more

Monthly Guest Post—Andy Gallo—The End of a Summer Most Strange.

Today is the last Friday in August. I suppose it’s because school starts (in some fashion or other this year) that we equate the end of summer with the end of August. I’m not a big summer fan – it’s Read more

Selling My Soul. Or perhaps, penguins.

. I’m about to start on a new venture. Something I’ve thought about for months, but – as always – that I’ve procrastinated about actually starting. Book sales throughout this year have been astonishingly good. I published The God’s Eye, Read more

Author Monthly Post – Anne Barwell – Planners

The last few weeks have been an uneasy one here in New Zealand and we’ve been hit with the second wave of Covid-19. So far, the virus appears to be only in the Auckland area which is lockdown in level Read more

When the world changes

I’m starting to think about a holiday story for this season, and I keep waffling about one issue. Do I write about last Christmas, with the setting options familiar and untouched by the pandemic. Or do I try to extrapolate Read more

The Craft of Advice Columns

Thanks to Álvaro Serrano for sharing their work on Unsplash.

I know what you’re thinking. Ideas for interpersonal drama, that’s what you get from advice columns. Actually, not really. I am an avid consumer of various advice columns and I don’t think I’ve ever been inspired to springboard off the Read more