Editing Services for Authors of Fiction

I wasn’t going to do this yet. I mean, I’ve been sitting on this for well over a year, and the plan was to wait until the website is live and launched. Life happens when you make plans, huh? My… Read More »

Let’s welcome Cerine Marrouat and her short story, The Train, to West of Mars! (Throw confetti. Okay, it’s paper shreds to reduce plastic and be good to birdies. And maybe some dryer lint for nest building.) I’ve gotten to know Cendrine via Counter.Social and its lovely writing community. I’m really delighted to host her today, which means… let’s get right to it, shall we? Cendrine, what song makes you think of your new short story, The Train? While writing my short story “The Train,” I often listened to Leigh Nash’s… Read More »

As authors, we walk an interesting, fascinating line: that between emotionally engaged and not. We need to emotionally engage in order to write the heart-wrenching stuff that our readers demand. We also need to be emotionally engaged enough to be… Read More »

We’re back after a short blackout (I hate those!) with a return visit from my new friend Tara Conrad. You can visit her first post, featuring Submitting to Him, here. Which means Tara’s an old hand at this already. I mean, of course she is after only being here once before. This isn’t hard stuff, gang — and that’s by design. I want it easy for you, both as spotlit authors and as readers. Which means, we gotta get right to it, no? Tara Conrad! What song makes you think… Read More »