‘Tis the Season – promotions

‘Tis the Season I am not unlike all the authors in the world this year. I am trying to promote my work so that I can start out 2018 in the black. I know I am starting rather late. But it’s been a very traumatic year, and well, writing and such hasn’t been the focus. It would be nice to gain a few new readers this year though, and that is really my aim here. One never knows when ones work will resonate with another person. Something I wrote at one time, either here, or someone else resonated with you,
Top Commenters for March

Today is really stormy so I am offline, but I just wanted to say thanks to you all for your friendship and wonderful comments. It’s been a very hard month for me and I needed support this month in the worst way. I amazingly have over 30 pageviews a day and that is really special because I lost so many of you after the site got hacked. Your kindness inspires me to write even more and I hope you are enjoying everything you’ve read so far. I am going to acknowledge my best commenters here since it is the last
Day six of Nanowrimo-my update
How to Write: Endings

Our How to Write series is coming to an end. It’s been a fun month-long venture. I hope you have gained a little insight during it. If you haven’t checked out all the posts for this series, you can do so here : CLICK HERE This last post I wanted to talk briefly about endings. And yes, they are very important. Sometimes endings will bring a reader into the next book, give them the ultimate satisfied feeling, or leave them wanting more more more. Either way, endings can win a reader’s heart and as we all know, once won, you
How to Write: Sagging Middles

So, how is it going? Have you gotten through the first one thousand words yet? Two thousand? Usually by this time, I know if a book is going to be finished or not (as a reader and as a writer). Some books start out strong and then about act two, something weird happens. It’s called the middle. No matter how hard we try, boring, inane activity, and sagging plots will hit us in the middle of a book. We sort of run out of steam, or if you are a pantser, you can’t see where the story is going and