My book, Ghostboy, Chameleon & the Duke of Graffiti, will launch next week on Amazon US and UK. To celebrate, I'm publishing the first twenty chapters of Ghostboy on Wattpad. If you've never heard of Wattpad, it's a fantastic and FREE reading and publishing tool. Writing for ... READ the POST
The End & the Beginning
Placing your final period on a novel is all at once enthralling and heartbreaking. Enthralling because you did it — you finished it — and heartbreaking because you leave your characters behind. Each time I finish a project, I experience a real sense of loss, the same one I feel when I finish reading ... READ the POST
Clean Writing
You’ve all heard of clean eating. Those cleanses you go on that rid your body of toxins and (sometimes, although definitely not always) pounds. You have to cut out the bland white flour, the processed sugar, and the greasy butter. Cream, cheese, basically anything white are kicked out ... READ the POST
Humanizing Characters
Reading is an adventure, but it’s also sensorial experience. A reader wants to feel something, be it hate, love, despair, hope, or heartache, and what creates these feelings is his or her involvement with the characters. As a writer, you must create 3Dimensional characters on 2Dimensional ... READ the POST