Piper Bayard begins her 3-part series on Indie Publishing with what authors need for quality independent publishing—including her Pro Tips.

Piper Bayard describes the 10 character traits shared by all authentic intelligence community professionals. This is invaluable for your characters!

Firearms often show up in fiction, and Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes clear up the errors authors tend to make in describing them.

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 […]

Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes One of the most common mistakes in fiction is confusing which intelligence agencies have the power to do what to whom and where they have the authority to do it. Today, we want to clear up that confusion. While there are numerous military and civilian intelligence agencies, we’ll focus on […]