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Content Marketing for Authors
May 11th, 2021
If you don’t know what content marketing is, and if you’re not using it to sell books, give me a few minutes and I'll give you a whole new world of marketing options. And if you’re a writer who hates marketing, read on. What It Is Basic, real-world definition, not some Webster’s bullshit:
Read Column →When the Answer Isn't Always Edgar Allan Poe
May 10th, 2021
Plath & Poe images public domain, Simic image by SLOWKING (GFDL) Edgar Allan Poe introduced most of us to horror—and to horror poetry—but for me, the writers who
Read Column →Blackout Poetry: New Interest in an Old Artform
May 7th, 2021
All the poetry images in this article used by permission of the poet, Jessica McHugh. Blackout poetry has been called a number of different things across time. It’s been called redacted poetry/writing, found poetry, erasure poetry, and it crosses over into cutout poetry and collage art.
Read Column →Gary Snyder: The Last Remaining Beat
May 6th, 2021
Photo via Wikipedia Commons Gary Snyder is one of the last living members of the Beat Generation. Sort of. He is alive—he turns 91 this month—and he knew many of the most famous Beats, like Kerouac and Ginsberg.
Read Column →Mistakes I Made With My Self-Published Book Covers
May 3rd, 2021
I’ve committed the worst sin of self-publishing. No, not failing to hire an editor (well, okay, I did that one, too. A bunch of times). No, not falsely representing myself to try and get my books on digital platforms used for library checkouts (wait, I TOTALLY did that one, and I won’t apoogize). I must confess: I made my own covers.
Read Column →Latinx Horror Author Roundtable
April 30th, 2021
As a Latinx poet and writer that often writes within the horror space, I have been pleased by the growth of Latinx representation in the genre. I wanted to talk to several new, emerging, and widely published Latinx horror authors to understand what being a Latinx horror writer means to them, and find out what they hope to see in the future of Latinx horror. These writers represent just a small sampling of Latinx voices writing horror fiction.
Read Column →Ruminations on Humanity, Escape and Sexiness: Recent Works by Kelly Kay, Leesa Cross-Smith and Alice Kaltman
April 27th, 2021
I want to tell you about my experience reading the books Crushing by Kelly Kay, This Close to Okay by Leesa Cross-Smith and dawg towne by Alice Kaltman. I do, and I will, there's just a lot going on. Yes, there is hope that COVID may yet run its course with vaccines now widely available. The new administration is talking about climate change. There is justice for George Floyd.
Read Column →11 Poetic Forms Ranked
April 26th, 2021
It's National Poetry Month in the U.S., which (of course) means it's time for an opinion-based list article. Today, I'm going to rank a variety of poetic forms. Some of these you're certainly familiar with while others may be new to you. Because I am ranking these forms based on my personal experience and preferences, there's nothing "true" about this list. Hopefully, though, the examples and thoughts I share will introduce you to some new regions of the poetic landscape.
Read Column →How To Write Your Novel in 20 Easy Steps
April 23rd, 2021
Original image by Andrea Piacquadio I once wrote a ten-step guide to writing your novel, but that was missing a lot of crucial steps, and some writers died or got seriously injured while following it, so I decided to expand it and create the definite guide to writing a novel. Enjoy!
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