Ten Things I’ve Learned as a Writer

Hey all… so I’ve been doing this writing thing seriously for four years now. I’ve learned a few things, and so for this month’s Love Bytes column, I thought I’d pass along my knowledge for other writers who might just Read more

How to Collab with an Author

I have done something that I haven’t done in some time. It’s not a bad thing, or even a weird thing, but for me it was completely out of the ordinary. In all fairness, I have done it before. I Read more

Red Rising Trilogy – A Study in GMC

At most author conferences and writer chats, the term GMC is prevalent. GMC=Goal/Motivation/Conflict and it’s essentially the reason for any story. What is the protagonist’s goal? What motivates him to achieve that goal? What gets in her way? In the Read more

How to Write a Smoking Hot Sex Scene

As an author of sexy romances, I’m happy to let you into the secret of creating a smoking hot sex scene of the kind I’m writing right now. Every writer has a different approach and different circumstances of course, but Read more

Short Stories, At Length

So, I’ve just finished writing a set of Regency stories m/m stories based around a little group of gay/bi gentlemen. As I have mentioned, this came about because I wrote a Regency card-game gay-Heyeresque story, ‘The Ruin of Gabriel Ashleigh’, Read more

RJ Scott: My Inspiration Wall

  My inspiration wall Being self-published gives me a lot of benefits.  Creative control, timing for release, triple editing, an army of proofers and most importantly I get complete control over cover art. I also, and this is the best Read more