Sweet Success Archive

With heartfelt gratitude to the membership of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, Margaret Mizushima is thrilled to announce that she was elected their 2019-2020 Writer of […]

By: Jason Henry Evans For the last couple of months, I can’t really say I’ve been in my writing hole. It’s probably closer to the […]

By: Robin Laborde A special two-part Write Brain:The New Zebulon Amy Armstrong, Presenterand250 Words That Will Make or Break YouNatalie Mae, Presenter 2020 Zebulon The August […]

By: Jason Henry Evans Three weeks ago I fulfilled a lifetime dream of publishing my first novel. I decided to self-publish my first novel for […]

Pikes Peak Writers is known for our annual conference, but we also do tons of programming throughout the year, much of it free!  One of […]

By: Jennifer Lovett Did you happen to attend a writer’s conference recently where you heard every author must have a blog? Or maybe you heard […]

By: Deb McLeod Recently the issue of backstory came up again with a client who is writing a YA in the aftermath of a pandemic. […]

By: Shannon Lawrence You’ve envisioned a world where some large-scale event has wiped out hordes of humanity.  Your characters are alive in your head, probably […]

By: K.J. Scrim No matter what genre you write in, the need for a crime scene of some sort may crop up somewhere in the […]

by: Margena Holmes As an author, you will almost always have doubts at one time or another about your writing. Is it good enough? Am […]

by: Catherine Dilts Today I offer a peek behind the curtain to the struggles and triumphs of writing. Here is my advice to aspiring authors, […]

by: Jennifer Lovett Do you have a book out? Have you turned it into an audiobook yet? Audiobooks are exploding on the market and now […]

by: Jason Henry Evans A couple of Fridays ago my wife and I sat down and watched “Always Be My Maybe.” A good, old fashioned […]

by: Jennifer Lovett Herbranson *WARNING: Foul Words Ahead* Ok, so I’m one of those who started writing the minute she could scribble with crayons. My […]

Harriet Beecher Stowe, born on June 14, 1911 in Connecticut and lived much of her life in Cincinnati.  Her best-seller, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helped galvanized […]

by: Jason Henry Evans You have decided to self-publish your novel. Congratulations! There is a world of opportunity out there for you. All you have […]

by: Jamie Ferguson How do author readings work? There’s a lot of variation in how author readings work, but they basically go like this: You’re […]

by: Robin Laborde Writing Real LGBTQ Plus Characters: A Panel Discussion I belong to a faith tradition, Unitarian Universalism, that affirms the inherent worth and […]

by: Margena Holmes Marketing—one of the least favorite things a writer needs to do. We have to come out of our writing cave and actually […]

Jennifer Lovett Herbranson An Author Platform is Only for Nonfiction Authors Get outta here! Platform is for everyone! Ok, so it’s definitely easier for a […]

Novelist and photojournalist Nayantara Sahgal celebrates her birthday today, May 10th. Her novel Rich Like Us won the Sinclair prize for fiction.  Have you ever […]

Today’s writing advice is nearly two thousand years old. Roman Emperor and Philosopher Marcus Aurelius would be celebrating his 1898th birthday today*.  His core work, […]

In this two part series, Jason Henry tells us about how the tax code can be used to further your writing career. Jason will be […]

Everything You Need to Know Most of the time, writing is a solitary act. But if you’re in it for the long haul, it quickly […]

This blog post originally appeared on the Killzone Blog (TKZ), to which John Gilstrap contributes every other Wednesday. ———— Like any other business, this publishing […]