Back in the early days of my Quest for Publication, I was equipped with naught but a trusty Pilot pen, a five-subject Mead notebook, and a plethora of ideas. Eventually, I upgraded to a keyboard and computer.
What do you call a race without a finish line? That’s not really a riddle. Or if it is, I don’t pretend to know the answer.
Writers spend a lot of time talking to themselves. We invent conversations between imaginary people, imagine a series of actions, and then transcribe what happens in our mind to the page.
Yesterday, The Renegade Chronicles were officially published...which means I can finally answer the question above.
Along with genre and characters, setting can be a deciding factor—or a deal breaker—when it comes to buying a book.
Even though “What’s your book about?” is the most difficult question for an author to answer, a few others can be tricky as well.
Synopses are the bane of a writer’s existence. Elevator pitch, logline, plot summary—whatever you call it, boiling down hundreds of pages to a handful of sentences is tantamount to torture for most novelists.
A month ago, I asked readers to vote for their favorite cover treatment for The Renegade Chronicles. After tallying up the votes, I’m delighted to report we have a clear winner.
On Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, author David Michael Williams brought a new publishing company into the world.
The beauty of words is that they paint pictures in the mind, but when you consider those black lines, dots, and curves on a blank backdrop, words themselves are nothing to write home about.