On Friday I decided on a name for my blog tour: Careful You Don't Outsmart Yourself . Given all of the anxiety some writers go through t...

Forgive me- I've said in the past that I don't want to write about Insider Baseball topics that only writers and authors care abo...

Thea Atkinson , author of character-driven fiction, features my thoughts on what makes a good villain. For starters, in many cases it's ...

I have no problem promoting myself as long as it's fun and not spam, but I had no appetite to do so last week, for obvious reasons. It...

The books I love best are the ones that connect me to a larger story. In the case of Galileo’s Muse , the story Mark Peterson , Professor ...

As some of you may know, I released my first novel  The Smartest Girl in the Room   this week.  Yesterday was my official launch and I used ...

I had this as soon as my copy came in to my favorite indie bookstore.  Sadly, I wasn't the first one in the house to read it; I lost the...