#5MinuteFiction Week 80 FINALISTS!

And so it comes down to five… Or something like that. I don’t seem to be very verbose today. Well, who did our judge,  J.P. Sloan, @J_P_Sloan, choose? Jennifer Brinn, @JenBrinn MLGammella, @MLGammella DL Thurston, @DL_Thurston Tauisha Nicole @shells2003...

Karma, Solidarity, and the Bad Part of the Review I Wrote for You

This topic has been brewing in my brain for a while now. A while back Roni Loren wrote a blog post called Book Review Debate in which she explained why she didn’t write bad reviews for books and why maybe other authors should consider not doing so either. There...

Oh the Things You’ll Learn

We write. We’re good. We know it. We FEEL it in our work, the emotion, the beauty. Others feel it too. Mom, cousin Amy, that-guy-you-met-on-the-internet-Mike, Colleen at work. They say it made them laugh out loud, cry, want to tell all their friends about our books....

#5MinuteFiction Week 70

What is 5MinuteFiction, you say? It’s an adrenaline-fueled, instant-gratification sort of writing contest. Sound fun? Great! Get in there and get dirty! The Rules * You get five minutes to write a piece of prose or poetry in any style or genre * You must BEGIN...

Rule of Three Blog Fest!

Have you heard of The Rule of Three and their blogfest coming in October? From their site: The Rule of Three Fiction Writing Blog Challenge Once upon a time, four  Writers Who Blog (WWB) got together to create a shared world, the Town of Renaissance, where they invite...