The Literary Mercenary

A certain headline comes across my news feed every couple of months. Though the specific formula for it might alter, the gist is always the ...

There are a lot of writers out there who take comfort in stories of late blooming authors. Tales of how someone didn't start releasing b...

If you're a writer who spends time on the Internet, chances are good you've already come across Wattpad . If you've never been t...

As I've mentioned before, one of my favorite things to do is volunteer for programming at conventions. Capricon is a favorite of mine, i...

Writing, at its core, is all about communication. It's trying to take the image in your head, and translating it in such a way that anyo...

I go to a fair number of conventions, and the most recent one I attended was Capricon in Chicago. A smaller sci-fi con, there's always a...

I've met a lot of writers who want to take a crack at the big leagues. Some of them were really good, some of them were mediocre, and so...