A couple years ago, I started a project called October for National Novel Writing Month. It was a novel, and a very personal one. Really more of a personal exploration than a story to actually publish. I still don’t know whether I’ll ever finish it or do anything with it, but I decided to share a snippet in honor of…
(And yes, I had to Google the proper way to address an ambassador. I’m not as cultured as I like to think.) We are all ambassadors. Every single one of us. At the most basic level, we represent ourselves. How we dress, act, speak, and carry ourselves tells other people what to think of us. Right now, somebody reading this…
The following is a guest thought by Jason McIntire, who wanted to make a quick stop here as he promotes his new novel, Flight School. He believes in trying to say a lot in a short space – which is probably one reason it took him a year and six months, working more or less consistently, to write a novel…
Last weekend, I went out to dinner with some friends after an hour of kayaking. It just so happened that all the other girls had decided to head home, so dinner turned out to be me and five young single guys from my church. The most fun part of this was sitting in on “guy talk,” during which I might…
I don’t normally share personal things on my blog, but my Facebook friends thought that this could potentially fit here–as an expression of life through the eyes of a writer. What do you think? Would you like to see more pieces like this? Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted it when my parents,…
Last blog tour post! This time, Braden Russell let me take over his blog to talk about Implant and what I learned from it. It’s been a long journey, but very much worth it!
Really, there are only so many blog post titles, guest post ideas and answers to “tell us about your book” that I can come up with… but there are just two more posts, at least for this tour! Then I can let my brain rest for awhile. The second to last stop on the Implant blog tour is a review…
Instead of a post or an interview, today some fellow authors and I are hosting a Facebook party to celebrate the release of Implant! And there’s a lot to celebrate–in addition to the Kindle version, you can now order a paperback copy! And if you”re interested in a signed copy, please message me so we can work out payment. Now…
My blog tour continues today, and so does my friend Elizabeth’s! I’ll be hosting a guest post for her here while my friend Olivia hosts one for me over at her blog. It’s like guest-post-ception. So click on over to read my post about characters and making them more like people, then save that tab and come back to read…
What was the weirdest thing I researched for Implant? Who am I in a parallel universe? And am I like any of the characters in the book? Claire Banschbach asked me this and more in an interview on her blog!