My Writer’s Life

Failure is Your Friend

The Road to Success is Paved with the Stones of your Fails

My Writing Needed to Take a Back Seat (for a while, anyway)

Take Time Off From Creativity to Regain…

Creativity and Emptiness Go Hand-in-Hand

(or ‘Why I Stopped Writing for a Year’)

Horror is not Terror: Know the Difference

When to be scared of the maniac, and when to recoil from…

Abandoning Genre

Don’t put labels on your art which you wouldn’t apply to yourself

Older and Uglier

(and what I’ve gained along the way)

When your friends begin to…

Writing By Instinct: Novel-writing as introspection

Your novel is not just plot and characters; it is…

Self-Publishing your Novel: Plan, Plan, Plan

If you intend to self-publish, be prepared to do a lot of…

Starting Over

What’s That Feel Like?