A short book teaser can reach a global market of book lovers. Here's Find Me Ben, a teaser for Someone Died In My House.

Create short, catchy book teasers to promote on social media. Here's Ben's War - Someone Died In My House.

The kid knew he'd make history when he ran away, got bitten and morphed. Create an irresistible character who wins readers devotion for...

“Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible...

Severed limbs leave memories on the host flesh, in muscle and tissue and nerve endings, like a ring sliding into place on a hand that...

This house is like an atlas in my mind - its elevations, fingerprinted plaster, broken bones and bruises. Just some 'word bait' to run...

The window bleeds steam from your breath. Leave if you want to. Your breath will never be that hot again. Some 'word bait' for you to...

Here's what I tell my creative writing students:  Soul-driven stories are only as mind-bending as the characters in them. Characters...

Who would have thought that these two young lovers would find a different ending - this ending: It won't come as a surprise if I said...

No one wants to live in a space that is becoming a war zone, becoming unrecognizable, and out of control. For my protagonist, Ben...

"Nothing maintains the pace in a thriller like a ticking clock. Give the main characters a deadly deadline, a threat that hangs over...

"He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began." -Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina In...

The summer women gathered each day as if childhood locked them in a playground, but that summer one of them stayed, a faded ghost no one...

"Conflict is the beginning of Consciousness" – Esther Harding Dangerous conflicts present threats to security which lead into intense...

'Conflict creates character; crisis defines it.' - - Steven V. Thulon Conflict can involve two irreconcilable thoughts or ideas,...

“No tears in the writer; no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer; no surprise in the reader.” – Robert Frost How does a writer...

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.” - Kurt...

The omniscient third person narrator can simultaneously unfold a variety of actions and speeches related to more than one character. They...

After giving a book talk in my writing class, a student asked if the characters and events in my novel were real because I talked like I...