I'm an impatient guy. As an hybrid author, I know firsthand how long it can take to publish a traditional book. Sometimes years! But ind...

(Courtesy Return of Kings) It’s the new year and already I can feel change in the air. After all, this isn’t only a new year....

 Publishing Advances aren't Real Money ... I realize this is a hard concept for non-industry insiders to grasp. Some publishing o...

This dude writes a lot Or said simply, the more words I write, the more I get paid. I guess there's probably a mathematical equati...

...Or what's better known in the writing world as chasing trends (maybe I should have titled this, Chasing your tale , get it?). Ev...

Not to be all doom and gloom lately folks, but now that 2019 is half over, it's become plainly obvious (or maybe I've just wo...

Yup, I'm back at Blogger. I thought the change to Wordpress would be worth it, but it turns out most of my subscribers are presen...

The gym where I lift weights in Florence, Italy, is located on the second floor of a century-plus old building. In fact, I think it used ...

You need to ask yourself that very question these days as publishing becomes more and more democratized. Indeed all of media for that mat...

Ben and somebody else mucking it up in NYC ...Is in the house. He and thee have been big buds for almost a decade now and I seen him...

Signing The Corruptions earlier this year at Mysterious Bookshop in NYC Probably not if you set out to write literary fiction (I rec...

The researcher in Guatemala Okay I jest. 2017 was actually a good year for me professionally, not in that I hit any particular home ...

The writing studio in Florence where I'm currently eating, drinking, writing... One of my best writing buddies posted on Facebook t...