The Care and Feeding of Magical Authors: The Realities of Social Anxiety

This past weekend, I attended my very favorite event of the year – the Dreamspinner Press Author Workshop. This is the place where our family comes together to bond and get great information about our company, our market, our business, Read more

If You Love Paranormal Books, You’ll Love This!

October is all about Halloween, of course, but in a broader sense, it’s about the paranormal. It’s the month where we dress up as something creepy, something otherworldly, where we decorate our houses with awesome things that remind us of Read more

Monthly Author post -Anna Butler – Reviews Redux

This was going to be a post about the tricks pulled on you by low self-confidence, the grungy feeling you (generic you!) might get when you’re looking imposter syndrome in the face, the general downer you get when you begin Read more

Putting the Social in Social Media

At the recent UK Meet I was a member of a panel which addressed the topic of social media for authors and judging by the quality of comments and questions from our audience it was clear just how important a Read more

A Community Like No Other

dsp retreat

I just got back from the annual Dreamspinner Retreat in Orlando. For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it’s a once-a-year shindig for Dreamspinner authors that includes some fantastic teaching seminars, the chance to hob-nob with other authors, Read more

Covers, Excerpts, and Sales, Oh My! – Tales From the Writing Cave

Life is bittersweet sometimes. For the first time in years I will not be at the Dreamspinner Authors Conference taking place this weekend. And I also have had to cancel on GRL this year due to some family medical concerns. Read more