Okay, before I get started let me get on my soapbox and say many a good writer stumbles by confusing relationship building with sex. They ar...

Before we get started, I'm teaching the method I used to query with a 50% full request rate in June. You can sign up here . (It's go...

A couple of years ago I participated in a wonderfully fun blogfest where we chose a favorite fairy tale or nursery rhyme and rewrote it in a...

Stuart Sharp has joined us today to give us some insight into his "process" and to tell us a bit about his book, The Glass . 1. ...

Today Brandon Ax joins us to answer my questions and tell us a bit about his book Elemental ... 1. Where did the initial idea for Elementa...

Today R.R. Virdi joins us to tell us a bit about his book and to answer my impertinent questions... 1. Where did the initial idea for Grav...

Bryan Fields has joined us today to tell us all about doing a police ride-along. You know, for research. (You know you want to do this.) Tak...

Today Katie Hamstead joins us to share with us how she balances all those shiny ideas bouncing around in her head. And also to share with us...

No Rest is a science fiction WIP... Chapter One I paddle out, breathing evenly in the early dawn, mist rising from the water. The whole...

Nobody's sent anything to crit (that was a mistake on Sunday's post) so I will take the hot seat. I've been revising my science ...

Final call for submissions for this week. If you have a full scene (or two) that you would like feedback on, email it to unicornbellsubmissi...

I just checked the calendar, and I see that my week is coming up. Which week is that? The book tour week. And you know what... It's em...

Original – Apolline is happy hunting magical creatures on her pirate infested outer-perimeter planet. She is a fantastic shot, and does...

Original - Seventeen-year-old Jesse thought getting beaten and branded out of gang life was the worst thing imaginable. He was wrong. ...

Original -  THE RISE AND FALL OF A HALLWAY SUPERHERO is a middle-grade contemporary adventure of 50,000 words, falling somewhere along the...

I had the darndest conversation with an online acquaintance. When I remarked how important critiques were for a manuscript, she sniffed an...

Guess what? My week of query critiques starts today at UnicornBell. Send your query to unicornbellsubmissions@gmail.c...