How adversity can help your writing career

Monday musings on the life of a bestselling author By Raine Thomas I self-published my first books back in 2011 in what some might say was the height of indie authorship. It was an incredibly exciting time! I’ll never forget the experience of working with a cover designer for the first […]

How do they do that?

Monday musings on the writing process Every writer gets this question at some point: “Where do you get your ideas?” Running a close second has to be “How do you get from the idea to a finished book?” To satisfy our readers’ curiosity, we’re starting a new Monday Musings series […]

Boys of summers in the before time

Sample this excerpt from the baseball romance For Everly By Raine Thomas Cole looked back at Wyatt. “I don’t think it’s a great idea to receive treatment by a student, Wy, genius or not. What if she screws up my arm even worse than it is?” “Then you’ll get treated by […]

Summer time, and the reading is easy

Monday musings By Scott Bury The season is here. The big parties that traditionally open the season have happened, despite all advice to the contrary. Weekend visits to the cottage or beach have turned into weeks-long vacations and road trips. And that means that summer reading season has started, as […]

Getting inspired in uninspiring times

Monday musings by the bestselling by Raine Thomas The world is changing moment by moment, but if you’re like me and still homebound due to COVID-19, you might feel like every day is the same. I’ve begun to understand with far too much clarity why Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day slowly […]

Do current events affect fiction?

Monday musings by multiple bestsellers There is much happening in the world today. Events are reaching the lives of more and more people, more deeply than is usual in our fragmented, digitally distanced society. If fiction offers a mirror to society, how do fiction writers incorporate the events of the […]

Interesting times

Monday musings By Scott Bury “May you live in interesting times” is often identified as a curse. And while the current time is fraught with fear, division, violence and illness, it’s also interesting. Not to belittle or dismiss the seriousness of the crises affecting people. The hundreds of thousands of […]

Pandemic tales

Monday musings by bestselling authors Hopefully, we will soon live in post-pandemic world. But we all know that everything has changed. So much of what we once thought of as “normal” is now over and done. How will this affect the stories and books we love to read? BestSelling Reads […]

Writing in quarantine time

Everything has changed: travel, work, leisure. Visiting family and friends. Writing has changed, too. BestSelling Reads authors describe what’s different for them. Alan McDermott You’d think that being stuck at home would be great for a writer, but not this one. If I was alone it wouldn’t be such a […]

How does gravity work? Where do ideas come from?

Monday musings on the elusive source of inspiration by award-winning bestseller David C. Cassidy Where do my ideas come from? It’s a question I’ve been asked more than once. The truth is, it’s like asking, “How does gravity work?” Who the hell knows. As a writer, I can say that my ideas—some […]