Piper Bayard of Bayard & Holmes The Americans, a show about undercover Soviet agents posing as Americans in the DC area during the Cold War, teaches writers solid lessons in both what it gets wrong, and what it gets right. Since I write espionage nonfiction and fiction and partner with a senior member of the […]

In our last Pimp and Promote, I mentioned that I’m working on a joint project right now with my critique partner, award-winning author Christina Delay. What I’m really doing is having so much fun writing right now, it should be illegal. Not that writing isn’t still work — it certainly is — but Christina and […]

Yesterday I opened an e-mail from a source that I usually delete without reading.  I'd purchased something from a "sister" company a month ago, and it seems that every week a new spin-off email touting the same information I'd wanted when I bought that resource book lands in my inbox. And though some of the […]

Donna Galanti   I’ve befriended many bestselling authors, online and in person, who want to help new writers. They’ve advised me, allowed me to guest post on their blogs, and have written blurbs for my work. They pay it forward. Someday you will too. You are an author (or will be!) and it’s important to […]

Summer is coming up fast, and here at Writers in the Storm we're marking the occasion with a little "Pimp and Promote." Of course, this always costs us some money, because we have to go out and buy lots of books. But there will be awesome "beach read" sales in next few weeks, so let's go […]