by MKMarketing | Jul 23, 2014 | For the love of writing
A month ago, my family moved from Orange County’s endless summer to a small(ish) island off the coast of the Pacific Northwest. It’s the beginning of summer, and the weather has been sunny and warm, so climate-wise, not much of a shift. But that’s...
by MKMarketing | Jun 4, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice. When a reader comes to the end of your novel, he or she lives in the world of your characters. If the story was compelling enough to get to the last word, chances are good this reader...
by MKMarketing | May 15, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts, Short stories
Successful short fiction makes a big impact in as few words as possible. Every choice you make as an author needs to be deliberate, every character needs to act with purpose, and every word must pack a punch. When less is definitely more, focusing on certain details...
by MKMarketing | May 8, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Your highest potential
If you’re a writer, chances are you spend hours crouched before your computer’s screen. It’s a potentially sedentary lifestyle, writing, but there are simple steps we writers can take to boost our health, creativity and sense of well-being. If we...
by MKMarketing | Apr 30, 2014 | Best Writer Tips, Fiction Novel Writing, Guest posts
Every time Dan Brown publishes a book, it quickly becomes the best-selling book of the year. In fact, Brown’s 2013 release of Inferno earned sales toppling both J.K. Rowling’s The Cuckoo’s Calling, and Veronica Roth’s enormously popular...
