
I’ve decided to share my adventures in writing with a not quite day-by-day blogging of my newest fiction project, which I shall call Project X. I can’t reveal all the...

Do you use Talking Heads? Do you even know what they are? I’m not referring to the band of the same name. In writing, the term “talking heads” refers to...

You want to be a writer. So you write and write and write. But still no one seems to take you seriously. You’re following the submission guidelines, you’ve addressed the...

It’s one of those days. Perhaps the rejection pile is growing larger while successes seem few and far between. Perhaps there’s a series of miscommunications or project delays that makes...

June 1st. Release day, and I’ve got a twofer going on. Legend of the Beemen is a short story, selling for .99 cents, and is an animal story… Well, actually,...

So, I was a bad girl, caught up in so many things yesterday (like editing for Penumbra’s June issue and trying to fix up my new website) that I forgot...

Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, put out an interesting article regarding marketing in the business world. The interesting thing about his article is that he's not talking about...

I have another lovely guest author post for my blog. This time, we're talking about promotion. I'd like everyone to welcome YA Author Sharon Ledwith. You can follow her on...

I have another lovely guest author post for my blog. This time, we’re talking about promotion. I’d like everyone to welcome YA Author Sharon Ledwith. You can follow her on...

Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.