The Hot Author Report

Reasons Not to Outline by Author Bill Walker

I hear a lot about authors who outline their novels before they start writing, outlines that can often be quite extensive. I’m not one of them, at least not with the books I’ve written thus far. For me, if I had to sit down and ponderously map out every little move my characters [...]

Guest Author Linda Dahl on Inspiration

One of the things I’m often asked as a writer is where my ideas come from.  For me, this consists of a kind of balancing act between the pragmatic brain and the dreamer.  Somewhere in the middle, ideas ripen and a few eventually come to life as stories, novels, biographies.  Yet, every time I finish [...]

Horror Author Maryann Paige on Ghostly Presences

One night as I lay in bed one evening, I could have sworn something touched my hair. I turned around, expecting to see one of my children. No such luck. Being a scaredy cat, I put my head under the covers and eventually dozed off.
The next day at work, on a summer morning during coffee [...]

Guest Author Malana Ashlie on ‘A Peek Into the Future’

Just over thirty years ago I was given an intuitive reading as a birthday gift. The reader of runes told me that she saw papers all around me and asked if I was a student or a writer. Since I had dragged myself through school and deplored any form of script my response was [...]

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Evolution by Lisa A. Shiel

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Evolution
Everyone has heard of evolution, whether in school, from magazines, or on television. But have you ever wondered what you’re not being told? In my book The Evolution Conspiracy I expose the naked truth about evolution—and just for you, dear readers, I’ve compiled this list of the top five [...]

True Crime Author Lynda Drews on The Runner’s Life and The Writer’s Life

The foliage color was at its peak as I lined up in the small fishing village of Gills Rock to tackle the first leg of the Wisconsin Door County Fifty that would finish in the shipbuilding community of Sturgeon Bay. The race director, Sean Ryan, approached me, giving me a warm hug, as the chilly [...]

It’s all About the Cheesecake by Therese Walsh

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So you work on a novel for, oh, let’s say six years, and you’re tired in a million ways. You’re wondering, Why would I ever, ever do this to myself again–besides the fact that you have to do it again, because you have a two-book contract. (You’re sure to throw in [...]

Caridad Pineiro on A Life of Stories

A Life of Stories
I remember summer days and waiting for the bookmobile or walking to the library to get a pile of books to read. That pile would last only a few days before we were waiting again to get another pile of books.
I was an avid reader much like my grandmother and mother. [...]

Guest Author Avi Perry on Book Reviews

You open your email in anticipation. Out of the seventy plus book review places to whom you sent your book have not yet written a review. Two months have passed, and there is nothing—nothing but silence. You know your book is great. Your friends, your editor, some others who read the early version came back [...]

Guest Post by Author Lisa A. Shiel

When you call your book The Evolution Conspiracy, one question naturally arises. Where’s the conspiracy?
Before I wrote the book I sat down and considered what I wanted to do with it. Humor is an important element in all of my writing, as is questioning mainstream dogma. In my novel The Hunt for Bigfoot I explored [...]