Sometimes, You Have to Give Your Characters the Axe
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins When you take ten years to produce a novel, it’s unlikely that the end result looks anything like …
Are You A Reading Snob? (It’s Okay to Admit It, I Promise)
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins We all have different reading preferences. Sometime’s these preferences are based on what we want to explore (through …
Reflecting on Words and What They Mean to Me
By: Tia Love My biggest resolution for 2015 is to conquer Amazon’s list of 100 Books Everyone Should Read. The first book …
Versus Mode: Compelling Plot vs. Writing Style
By: Aryanne Ferguson When it comes to narrative approaches to the novel, I recently came across two seemingly opposing articles. One, said that …
Fuel for Your Creativity: Location, Location, Location
By: Aryanne Ferguson Writers draw inspiration from many sources, and one of my favorites is landscape. Author Lucy Wood illustrates my point in this …
On the Page: Male versus Female Intimacy
By: Aryanne Ferguson In search of inspiration, I watched a Ted talk by anthropologist Helen Fisher called The Brain in Love. Writing-wise, what …
You Don’t Have to Suffer As a Writer (I Recommend that You Don’t)
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins Woe is me, woe is I. I am a writer and I have the hardest job in the …
Some Reasons You Might Want to Self-Publish Your Novel
By: Ebonye Gussine Wilkins There has been debates for years about why someone should or should not self-publish a novel. Here are …
Your Novel – The Movie Version!
By: Aryanne Ferguson I love when people are passionate enough about books to tell the whole world. Here at August Rose Press, …
Ideology: When Writers Have Axes to Grind
By: Aryanne Ferguson Does your writing have an ideological base? For example, you’ve got a beef and you’re going to write about …