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  • End of Year Sale!

    Hey folks, Savior of the Damned is on sale on every platform for .99 cents and both Tales From 3 AM and A Field of Beheaded Roses is free on every platform except Amazon until January 7th! It’s been an amazing year, even filled with ups and downs like it has been, but I am…

  • Opinions

    Your opinion comes first. There are all sorts of people with all sorts of opinions, especially when it comes to your work, but the reality is your opinion is ultimately the only one that matters. As long as you’re not writing instruction manuals on how to get away with murder or something similar, or glorifying…

  • Is Said Dead?

    Every last one of you is both right and wrong about using the dialogue tag said. The problem is that it’s a rule that has a lot of missing context and nuance, because you need to know when to use it and when to use something else. And reducing it to quirky catchphrases is doing…

  • Weaponizing Grammar

    I’ll link the post where I talk about why it’s classist, ableist, racist, and rude to correct grammar because I’m here to expand on that topic. I covered those points well enough, but I just had someone report a spelling error in my book and I’m here to talk about why you should either ignore those…

  • Audiobooks Count as Reading (and Saying Otherwise is Ableist)

    I see this all the time on social media, that audiobooks don’t count as reading. It’s listening. Aside from how heavily pedantic that argument is (seriously, does it really matter that much?) it’s ableist. Let’s unpack this, shall we?  First of all, how do you think blind people read? Not all blind people read braille,…

  • Reading

    I think it’s a given that I’m a reader. A lifetime ago I’d do a book every day or two but nowadays my reading is often interrupted by day-to-day life. But it doesn’t answer what I like to read.   Well, the short answer is I’ll read almost anything I can get my hands on that I find interesting. Be it autobiographies, historical fiction, urban fantasy, even thrillers and…