Create a Comic Book in 10 (simple?) Steps

Comics and other graphic texts are one of the fastest growing areas of publishing, and they seem to be getting stronger each year. If you haven’t considered getting graphic, you might want to.  This post is for creators, especially writers, who are interested in graphic story-telling. Even if your art skills are limited to crooked, one-armed stick figures, […]

Get published in ten (easy?) steps

I’ve written a book, now how do I get it published? (I get asked this question a lot, so I thought I’d try to answer it here in ten easy steps.) 1) First off, congratulations on writing a book! Seeing your vision through to the end, sticking with your characters for a few hundred pages, and […]

Writing Advice Part I

Here it is, the best piece of writing advice I ever got: Write the story you most want to read. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? But you’d be amazed by how few people actually do this. For years, I didn’t. I wrote the stories I thought would please my teachers. The stories I thought would impress […]