Jan 4, 2023 | Fun Historical Facts
Annoying for some, clickbait for others, listicles are everywhere. In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, ChatGPT defines them as follows: A listicle is a type of article or blog post that is presented in the form of a list, with each item on the list...
Jan 2, 2023 | Random Musings
2022 was… unusual, for sure. We’ve seen the end of COVID, only it wasn’t really an end now, was it? At least the economy has recovered following the ruinous crises of past years… or so I’d love to say, except it hasn’t. Well, maybe...
Dec 23, 2022 | Random Musings
Thank you all for being a part of my writing journey! I wish you the merriest of Christmas and the happiest of New Years!
Nov 25, 2022 | Publishing
I came across Bookbird when I was hired by Yves Lummer to work on the website’s content. Bookbird is rapidly becoming a top resource for authors looking for help with writing and self-publishing, with tons of excellent advice covering everything from name...
Nov 24, 2022 | Random Musings
I know I haven’t been terribly active lately. If you’ve stuck around despite that, you have my gratitude! I’m grateful for you 🙂
Nov 4, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews, Quora
I had been following Nelson McKeeby on Quora for a while before finding out that he’s a fellow author! He has now published On Other Shores, the first book in his Tea Merchants series. You can find him on Prince of Cats. On Other Shores Despite being rogue and a...
Oct 30, 2022 | Quora, Writing
What would happen if you tried to use a cloak to block a sword? Eric Lowe (and here) has two illuminating answers to this question – both opening up many possibilities in fiction writing. It’s not a shield Before going into any details, the first thing to...
Oct 22, 2022 | Fun Historical Facts
We are all familiar with swords and spears but what about the formidable khopesh? As Colleen Anne Coyle explains on Quora, the khopesh was more than a symbolic weapon of the Pharaohs and an emblem of Egyptian Deities. A true weapon of war, the khopesh/ sword was...
Oct 18, 2022 | Fun Historical Facts
I always found forearm guards to be rather quaint and decorative rather than effective in battle. Then I came across this answer by Eric Lowe on Quora. Like me, Eric confesses to originally writing off forearm guards as fantasy. His research, however, showed him...
Sep 27, 2022 | Fun Historical Facts
And of course, today’s big news is that NASA has successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. It will be a few days before we know if that means that the Agency has passed the first-ever planetary defense test, but navigation was the hardest part of the...
Sep 15, 2022 | Random Musings
Car owners are well aware of the fact that a car is more than just a means of transport: it can have its own character, story, and destiny. This is why so many writers took inspiration from the image of the automobile and embodied it in their works. How about cars...
Aug 10, 2022 | Interviews Features and Reviews
Christine Robinson is a long-time friend of this blog (and my work). Her historical fiction book, Three Years of Her Life, has now been released on Amazon. Three Years of Her Life is her debut historical fiction book, inspired by Grandfather Gustav F. Heim’s...
Jun 24, 2022 | My Publications
Rayne Hall is the successful author of dozens of books in her celebrated Writer’s Craft series. A few months ago, we wrote together a book chock-full of copywriting tips called Copywriting: Get Paid to Write Promotional Texts. Rayne and I have now finished a new...
