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Elgon Williams
Mar 29, 20192 min read
A Tale of Four Books
For the past couple of months I have been in revision mode working on some unfinished and unpublished manuscripts. Two of the...
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Ward Parker
Mar 26, 20192 min read
When It’s Fun to Be Frightened
Image by ayoub wardin from Pixabay Usually, scary stuff is not fun. We tend to avoid poop-in-your pants situations. They can be traumatic...
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Ward Parker
Feb 22, 20192 min read
This Blog Gives Me Chills
The chills: goosebumps, a tingling in your scalp, hairs standing on end, a lump in your throat, tears. Many of us have experienced them...
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Christine Gabriel
Feb 18, 20195 min read
Keeping It Real with Christine
"An Only Elgon" This week, we sit down with Pandamoon Publishing’s Director of Marketing & Sales, Elgon Williams. Christine: Elgon, you...
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Ward Parker
Jan 21, 20192 min read
The Conspiracy Threatening My Writing Career
They’re trying to destroy my dreams of success. I’m not talking about the publishing industry, which is paying non-celebrity authors less...
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Nola Nash
Jan 15, 20192 min read
Strange Bedfellows- Writers and Day Jobs
All I really want to do is write all day. Even the editing part. Hell, even the writing the book synopsis part. But I can't. I have a day...
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Matt Coleman
Nov 25, 20183 min read
Five Rules for Hating On Writers Who Make Lists for Other Writers
Thanksgiving is over. Let’s talk pure, unadulterated rage. One of the most interesting things to happen in Twitter land lately has been...
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Benny Sims
Nov 17, 20182 min read
Afraid Of The Light
This article is for all those who write short stories, novels, poems, or songs, but haven’t yet gathered enough courage to show them to...
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Laura Kemp
Nov 4, 20183 min read
Writing THAT scene... or 'How to face your relatives after they read your book.'
I remember it clearly- I was attending my college professor’s book reading at the local library, a successful man I had a great deal of...
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Laura Kemp
Oct 3, 20183 min read
Pay No Attention to the Writer Behind the Curtain
In a few short weeks my book will be released to the world, my very first baby, the one I spent years fretting about and writing and...
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Joanna Evans
Sep 23, 20182 min read
THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF WRITING A SCREENPLAY
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is just around the corner. Last year, the annual November event did not result in a novel for...
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Susan Kuchinskas
Sep 22, 20182 min read
A Simple Hack for Keeping Track of Your Plot
How do you plot out a novel? I am not an outliner, but I'm not really SOP (seat of pants) either. I've got a general idea of where I want...
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Ward Parker
Sep 21, 20183 min read
Marketer, Sell Thyself
Book marketing is not easy. When I signed the contracts for my first novels, I thought that after my many, many years in advertising (I...
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Jule Selbo
Sep 19, 20186 min read
Jule's TAKING MYSELF TO THE MOVIES
A SIMPLE FAVOR (2018), MADAME CURIE (1943) Second week of September and that back-to-school feeling and the crisp Maine day had me back...
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Rachel Schoenbauer
Jun 15, 20185 min read
Finishing the Unfinished
Writing a book is a massive project to tackle, a veritable marathon of words. Sometimes--a lot of the time--that book will go unfinished....
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Dana Faletti
Mar 1, 20173 min read
On Writing a Trilogy
Today I sent in the final edits for my third and last book of my YA paranormal romance trilogy – Whisper. Sigh. There’s a bitter...
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Dana Faletti
Jan 9, 20165 min read
World-Building in Fiction-Writing
I took a workshop in world-building through the Women’s Fiction Writers Association about a year and a half ago. It required students to...
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