One of the most frustrating parts of being a freelance journalist aside from the actual writing is finding editors to pitch your work to. I’ve grappled with this for years, and I think I always will. Why? Editors […]

Why does an author need a good website? And why should they pay for one instead of using one of the many free ones? Or isn’t it easier to use Facebook or the writer’s blog they have been using? However, the best […]

My book “Tea-Sing Your Taste Buds: How to brew and drink a proper cup of tea” is now available on my website in PDF format. All proceeds from the sale of the book will go toward funding my two healthcare […]

December: National Write a Business Plan Month. As a freelancer, you are a business owner, so consider writing a business plan this month!

December 3: National Day of Giving. On the Tuesday after […]

Humans are very adept at creating patterns, even when there isn’t a pattern in the data. A great example is the “man in the moon.” His appearance is nothing more than our taking random spots of light and shadow […]

So, here’s the word on my latest book project, due to come out December 15, 2024. It’s called Tea-Sing Your Taste Buds: How to Brew and Drink a Proper Cup of Tea, Second Edition. Like the dental care book I’ve […]

Gothic Revival

Michael Mullin

Typically when a person finishes a stage in life, they completely move on. No matter how close they were with friends, oftentimes the friends do not move with them to the […]

Have you ever read a book that had so much description you got lost in the writing, but not in a good way—in a what-were-we-talking-about way?

Or how about this—the handsome hero in a romance novel is shown dow […]

Massage Parlors

Joe the Cop walked into the Tech Room and, grumpy as usual said, “We’ve got two massage parlors to start the day.”

That brought groans and curses from the rest of the team […]

Many people need to hire a freelancer, but where can they find one that takes their career seriously?

People visit the NAIWE website and post a job they have available. The job posting would then be sent to all […]

So, in my opening blog last week, I talked about one of my book projects, Sinking Your Teeth into Proper Dental Care, Second Edition. This week, I’d like to discuss its rather unusual hunt to find an […]

Hello, Visitors, and welcome to my inaugural NAIWE blog. I’d like to take the first couple of posts to talk about one of the book projects I’m working on. This title is Sinking Your Teeth into Proper Dental Care, […]

Member Benefit #21

Marlowe Pro from Authors A.I. is a powerful manuscript assessment tool for fiction authors, editors, and publishing industry professionals. Marlowe is the creation of Matthew Jockers, Ph.D., […]

I had to learn to write the book blurbs for my nonfiction ghost books for Schiffer Publishing as a requirement of being published with them. When I self-published my urban fantasy/horror novel, How the Vortex […]