Bayard & Holmes ~ Jay Holmes In our last Writing Spies article, we talked about bugging rooms.* But what if our characters need to know if a room is already bugged?  First, consider the character being bugged and the character or organization doing the bugging. Some characters are going to expect surveillance. For example, Mafiosos […]

Gwen Hernandez Scrivener understands my writing needs in a way that other word processors never have. Here are 10 reasons why I threw over the old standbys. 1. Scrivener remembers your spot. Every time you open a project in Scrivener, it takes you right to where you left off. Maybe not such a big deal when […]

Les Edgerton The writer who can master the art and craft of defining their characters by their actions is going to be the author whose work gets read. By lots and lots of folks… Enough, hopefully, that you’ll never again have to say to someone about the novel you’ve written that it’s “only available in […]

Lisa Hall-Wilson Facebook is my happy place. I hang out there a lot – I get paid to hang out on Facebook. One of the questions I’m asked the most is how much of your own content and how much content from others do you post? There’s not really a one-size fits all answer because […]

Christopher Lentz If you’re reading this, you’re probably a storyteller. That’s part “story” and part “teller.” So what do your book covers tell potential readers? First confession: I may be new to the self-publishing world, but I’m not a newcomer to the universe of design and marketing. Since the launch of my novel, Blossom, I […]