Indie Spotlight: Wesley Parker
While he currently has three books published and one scheduled to release this summer, being an author wasn’t necessarily a life goal for Wesley Parker. Parker was pursuing his bachelor’s degree in mass communication at Colorado State University, when he discovered he...
Final Boss Con levels up in year three
“One fan or a thousand, it does not matter. We give them the best show they’ve seen.” That was the text co-founder Mackenzie Halley sent in the early morning hours to the team behind Final Boss Con, a Pop Culture and Gaming Convention in Rio Grande, Ohio. 2022 was...
A valuable lesson learned today
I literally don’t know where to start. This isn’t new for me. All of my life I’ve had way too many things going on at once. New hobbies upon new jobs. New interests upon new rabbit holes. Right now, while I write this, my brain is screaming at me to stop. To write on...
Writers Are Weird
Writers are weird creatures. We constantly straddle the fence between reality and fantasy. At random times (and sometimes inappropriate times) we log what is happening around us, filed away for possible future use. A conversation. A feeling. The smell of the air....
Indie Author Spotlight – Caroline Noe
Writing primarily in the genres of science fiction and fantasy, London based author Caroline Noe released her debut novel “Firestone Key” in April 2018. While the tag line for “Firestone Key” is Every Evil Has An Origin, Noe said it could as easily have been Every...
Just a normal day for me
That morning. I wrote it down. Literally wrote it down. On a piece of paper on my kitchen counter. Take a shower. Get dressed. Get coffee. Give dog medicine. Write. That was it. Short and sweet and would result in, hopefully, many words written. It started out well. I...
Oops, I did it again
Impulsive buying, random hobbies I ultimately lose interest in, and a ridiculous number of planners and notebooks are nothing new to me. I just didn’t know why, because it’s not something you really talk about with others. You don’t talk about how you can’t walk...
And just like that my life makes sense
And just like that my ENTIRE life makes sense. There was a reason I couldn’t get things done; that I had trouble juggling my own life, not to mention my family’s. A reason I struggled to maintain relationships. A reason that I wrestled with finances and constantly...
On Plagiarism
Over the past days, I’ve checked my Twitter more than I’ve checked it probably in the last six months, following the whole #copypastecris debacle currently unfolding in the publishing world. Long story short, it has been discovered a bestselling Brazilian “author” has...
Indie Author Spotlight – Jonathan Davis
“The fastest way to describe them would be if you put a Universal monster movie and a John Ford western together,” New Mexico based author Jonathan Davis said when asked to describe his Weird West novels The Wendigo and the Werewolf and Sister Cassidy. Set in the wild...