A friend of mine recently suggested I post my positive reviews to social media for more engagement and better advertising for my books. While that thought crossed my mind when I started down the author's path over a year ago, I quickly learned that this is not a very wise thing to do. But why? … Continue reading Why I Don’t Respond to Reviews (and you shouldn’t either)

The short answer is: it's complicated. If you've spent years writing fanfiction or have just started embarking on the daunting task of writing an entire novel, this is probably something you've never even considered.  As someone who was an exclamation mark abuser, let's just say it was sobering to get my manuscript back from my … Continue reading Exclamation Marks and Interrobang: should you use them in your novel?

If you're here, you're likely an avid reader or a writer yourself, and you're probably familiar with the wild west of self-publishing. Being able to circumvent the gatekeepers has been an amazing boon to seeing works published that a publisher concerned with their bottom-line wouldn't touch. Over the years, traditional publishing encouraged people to emulate … Continue reading The Self-Publishing Mire