Join Dave every other Wednesday for a new post on the craft of fiction.
Join the discussion on FacebookYou'll also be the first to know about upcoming releases and important news. Don't worry, your email is always safe and will never be sold, given away, or shared.
Subscribe nowSeveral weeks ago I was speaking with a friend who is in the throes of completing a debut novel. A beta reader, who is an…
Read MoreAs yesterday was the 55th anniversary of the day of my birth, and I don’t want to wait a year to tell you (when my…
Read MoreA couple of weeks ago I saw the first concept art for the cover of Waterborne, my upcoming second novel. It looked terrific and after…
Read MoreWriters need editors. Most of us do not excel at editing our own work. The rest of us outright stink at it. Our biases are…
Read MoreA recent writers workshop conversation surfaced the difference between world-building and setting. To be honest, I’d not thought much about it, but the distinction is…
Read More