

'A Wasted Death' Is Out And About
Illustration By Joleene Naylor Brynhild Von Meiser is struggling to bring up her daughter to be a good duchess and run a busy, prosperous...
A Wasted Death Will Be Out Shortly
And then you will be able to get it on Hoopla, Apple, Amazon, Kobo, and Smashwords I am very excited to expand my distribution, and that...
The Thing About Podcast to Book Pipelines
I'm reading a book about cults, and it is a direct adaptation of a Parcast podcast on the subject. The plus side for the reader is that...
Distribution Questions
So... It turns out that the one book that I promised to do an interview for is not in the KDP select program. I read the contract, and I...
You Know What's Great About Episodic Stories?
This is a small brag, but not a personal one: mystery series have cracked the meta. I realized this when I found the YouTube algorithm kept shoveling critiques of the fantasy genre at me. (I haven't read fantasy for a minute or two. I think Sir PTerry was still alive when I did, since I loved him dearly. I need to start hunting for more mystery critiques.) Disregarding that, the complaint that many of the fantasy videos aired was that they didn't want to start a trilogy or si


Timing the Editing
Someone At Work, by Rinzing Yongewa So, I sent a simple mystery, where a body is in a trash pit behind the inn, for editing. Simple line...


Counting Pennies!
My Most Frequent Reaction to the Discovery of Other People I got a notification from KDP that the platform is about to give me a whole...
Modern Mystery Series and What Makes Me Side-eye Them
I want to start out with reassurance: Everything I am complaining about, or just observing, is said out of love. I don't hate 'tropes' or...


On Outlining: When You Find Your Interest Flagging
The Outliner Considering I've been giving some thought to the common complaint of pantsers that they cannot write an outline and then...
On Entering Contests and Finding A Group
The local writing group held a flash fiction contest. That's kind of when you do what Kurt Vonnegut said of his aliens' fiction: catch a...