The application window to be a Pitch Wars mentor for 2021 has opened. With that, several people have reached out to ask me if I’m planning to apply. I’m not. So I thought I’d explain my thoughts on that publicly. First, and most important, my decision has nothing to do with Pitch Wars itself. I...

As I progress in my still fledgling career, I find that I’m often giving advice to other writers. Given where I am, with 3 books in the world and another on the way in February, one of the groups of people I can often help is debut authors. This is going to be a really...

Talk about literary agents — good agents, bad agents — is making it’s annual rounds on twitter, and I’m not big on making long threads, so here we are. If you’re interested in this topic, I did a post a couple years back about what your agent does for you. It’s not updated, but it...

As the most stressful part of Pitch Wars approaches — wait, you didn’t think the other parts were stressful, did you? Huh. Well, carry on, I guess. Nothing to see here. Of course I’m talking about the agent showcase. A lot of you are going to stress about it, regardless of what I tell you....

With the agent showcase coming up, I thought I’d pass on a message that applies every year. Most of you aren’t going to listen to me, and that’s cool. You are excited, and you can do whatever you want. After all, this is your shot. Except it’s not. This is certainly *a* shot. But it’s...

I was listening to the song “The Middle” the other day, as one does when one is trying to get motivated. Seriously, read the words: Hey, don’t write yourself off yetIt’s only in your head, you feel left outOr looked down on Just try your bestTry everything you canAnd don’t you worry what they tell...

I’m behind on my novel. Let me clarify that. I’m behind where I want to be on my novel–where I need to be to reasonably make my deadline. So let’s take a look at how I got here. Despite 2020 being what it was, I had a pretty good second half of the year writing....

I try to keep up with science fiction and fantasy as it comes out, but often I find that I miss something and only catch up with it after everybody else is talking about it (Or, in the case of one book from 2019, after it got nominated for a major award in 2020). So...

In the tradition of soon-to-be-failing New Year’s resolutions everywhere, I place here in a public place my writing goals for 2021, so that I may be suitably shamed by them if I fail to achieve them. The Known: Part of this is easy. I’ve got two books under contract, so unless I want to pay...

I thought I’d share what I’ll be reading in the first couple months of 2021. In theory, this is for those interested. In reality, it’s probably a desperate attempt to keep myself on track. Which is why I’m only doing the first month or two. Anything beyond that is just unrealistic. I’m going to break...