Wanda Does What She Likes
She came to me as muses do, whispering a challenge, implying a promise. And when I spotted “Tattooed Daughter” by Michael Haykin, I was certain…
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Editors, My Secret Weapon
If you have the humility to accept criticism you may be willing to actually hire someone who has a clue. Indie authors have been accused…
Compelling Book Covers
Like everything else about producing a novel, information is abundant, confusing and often contradictory. There are no end of experts, all with strong opinions, all…
The book is done -now what?
Here’s what has happened to No Name Key so far: I am dead center of a very steep learning curve particularly when it comes to…
Review of The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell
Written by Jessica Argyle and published in Solares Hill, Key West, February 2012 The Outlaw Album is Daniel Woodrell’s first collection of stories after…
Rolling, rolling, rolling
Reporting from the field. Just dodged a bullet by trying to improve, i.e. complicate, the plot of my novel by adding a stash of gold…
Life gets in the way, but still
I’m sure I’m not alone when I break promises to myself. Particularly writing promises. I haven’t posted in the last two weeks and didn’t write…
Researching a novel. Write what you want to know
If you wonder why no one comments after you detail the particulars of wood grain, or how tornadoes form, chances are you may also be…
First you write the novel. . .
It’s tempting to believe that a traditional publisher will take care of everything once my novel gets accepted for publication. All I will have to…
Place, in Fiction
Lately my favorite books feature place prominently. I love to feel familiar with an area as much as with the characters that inhabit it. I…