Using Tropes To Strengthen Your Fiction With Jennifer Hilt
What are tropes and how can you use them to strengthen your fiction? What are some examples of horror tropes,…
Writing Beginnings with Shane Millar
What do you need in the beginning of your novel so your reader buys your book? Shane Millar shares tips…
Stepping Back To Step Forward With Joanna Penn And Orna Ross
Every month, I record the Advanced Self Publishing Salon with Orna Ross for the Ask ALLi Podcast. Well, it's usually…
How Creativity Rules the World With Maria Brito
How does curiosity fuel creativity? How can we balance consumption and creation in an ever-busier digital life? How can you…
Using AI For Art, Images, And Book Covers With Derek Murphy
Generative art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are taking AI art into the mainstream. What are the opportunities…
The Way Of The Fearless Writer With Beth Kempton
How can we accept imperfection as writers while still striving for excellence? How can we make space for going deeper…
Thoughts On Writing And Creative Business. Interview With Joanna Penn
In this wide-ranging interview on the Prickly Pens Podcast, Joanna Penn talks about changing careers from IT to becoming an…
Different Traditional Publishing Experiences With Georgina Cross
Traditional publishing is not a monolithic thing. There are different kinds of publishers, and authors want different things out of…
Writing Tips: Outlining/Plotting Vs Discovery Writing/Pantsing
Every fiction author will (eventually) find their own method for writing but all fall somewhere on the spectrum between outlining/plotting…
Transmedia And Publishing Comics And Graphic Novels With Barry Nugent
How can you adapt your novel into a comic or graphic form? What are the different types? How does a…