by Alycia King “Close your heart and mind to nothing.” That’s the advice self-published author Damon Marbut received from his writing instructors. With that in mind, Damon wrote and published his first novel, “Awake in the Mad World,” which is an entrant for the Pulitzer Prize and has advanced into…
by Alycia King Writers nurture their novels like a newborn baby, spending countless hours attending to the words between the cover and the last page. After months of editing just to get their book to that final stage and ready for publication, most want nothing more than to sit back…
by Midge Raymond As writers, we’re told that in order to succeed, we must write every day—but of course, this isn’t realistic or feasible for most of us; we have families, day jobs, and other responsibilities that can get in the way of a daily writing practice. As an author…