Happy Birthday

to kiramaru & honor_reid and happy belated birthday to fansee



Hope it was a good day!

writerly ways

Okay I have nothing so here's Lou from Hollywood Homicide. I guess this would be Dan if he has undercover work (or Gil because really...) Though Dan does have a trans aunt.



So my question for all of you, who is doing Nano? Need a writing buddy?

Open Call (keep an eye on these, I had another one close super early and the one I was going to send to was for authors that I don't fit because I only looked at the horror tree site and not the actual site) and the other novella site paid so little I decided nope.

Never Wake: An Anthology of Dream Horror pays very well

Electric Spec Spring Issue 2023

Fahrenheit Press Is Open To Crime And Thriller Novels.

Word West Revue Fall 2022 Window Western/weird west

The Fabulist November Window (Early Listing) short short

Mythic Magazine 2022 December Window (Early)

Path of Absolute Power: Superhero Anthology they are using some arbitrary pay scale based on how much publishing you've done

Of Gods and Globes Volume 3

Links from around the web

Why Is The Oxford Comma So Important? A Real Life Example That Shows The Importance Of This Punctuation Mark

7 Writing Tips for How to Write Scenery in Novels

How to Supercharge Ebook Sales

Can you see what is and isn’t on the page?

How to Avoid Taking Edits Too Personally

Get to Know Your Ideal Reader.

3 Tips To Boost Your Book Sales This Fall

The 979 ISBN Bug

Marketing A Book (Beyond Social Media)

Things to Consider When Creating an Effective Writing Schedule

Five Micro-Edits to Hook Readers On Your First Page

How to Work Through Writing Doubts

Filtering Phrases and Why You Should Minimize Them in Your Novel i have another list of these (without smelled/tasted need to add them) and have been using it so heavily that I found I've stopped putting them in the story in the first place for the most part.

The Seven Deadly Thoughts of Many Indie Authors

Ingredients for a Successful Story Climax

Business Plans For Freelance Writers

Book Launch Parties: 15 Tips for the Best Party Ever!

Creating Fictional Holidays

Siege Warfare Before Gunpowder.

Why You Should Consider Present Tense

Special Abilities

Less Is More—When It Comes to Describing Setting

The Top Three World-Building Pitfalls (and how to avoid them

Fear Thesaurus Entry: Being Pitied


Horror: Why We Love It, Hate It & NEED It

shape your shibboleths

Can you see what is and isn’t on the page?