How to Take them into your Story Seeing the children amazed by your story, laughing with your characters, and lifting their hands to take part in the tale is the best reward for a children’s writer. That’s why I love presenting my children’s…
Authors use props—objects, food, music, accessories, hobbies, animals, and many other things—to support their characters and move them through different scenes, and they use props to provide subtle cues to the reader as to how to feel about the…
With the launch of my fourth novel, “The House Always Wins,” in October, 2017, I’ve been in full promo mode for the last four months. Luckily, I’m a marketing guy in real life, which may give me a leg up but doesn’t make the task any…
If you request a review from a busy book blogger, you are likely to be put in a months-long que. Popular bloggers can’t keep up with the requests they get, and some of the biggest bloggers get paid by large publishers to review books. What chance…
