Weird, I just submitted another cover-related post before this one caught my eye. Of course book covers matter. And of course we’re all prone to judging a yadda yadda blah. As an author, I’m thrilled that self-publishing allows me ultimate control over cover art. As a guy who really wants people to buy his book, [...]

Sorry, was distracted by the day gig. Thanks Melissa and Dick, will certainly return the favor.

Whoa there Dick, I didn’t call Ms. Hocking’s writing cat turds. Having never read the young lady’s work, I wouldn’t presume to speak to its quality. I wasn’t calling out anyone in particular. My point was, as a committed writer and reader, I expect a certain baseline when I open a book, any book, and [...]

This thread is, frankly, terrifying. Are you, as writers, really content to read a story in which “there” and “their” are interchangeable? In which “it’s” and “its” mean the same thing? In which subject and object not only disagree, but have been forced into a cage match? I’m not talking about typos, I’m talking about [...]

Thanks Sky, I’ll look for your story. Ghostwriter actually touches on the true story of Mary Hardy Reeser, whose death was the first case of possible spontaneous human combustion ever investigated by the FBI, and it happened right here in St. Petersburg in 1951. Not to self-pimp too heavily, but I’m putting free short stories [...]