When Mental Health Triggers Collide With Your Writing
As writers we can choose what we write and when we write. So it seems a bit odd that we would write something that triggers our mental health if we didn’t want to. And yet, that’s exactly what happens when life, publishing circumstances, or even the prose...
Disarming the “Not Enough” Trap
There’s a common thread that runs through the disappointment that comes with low sales or publisher and agent rejections. When you submit a proposal for a conference and it doesn’t get accepted or when you submit a resume for a job and you don’t get...
Dealing with the Demons of the Publishing Unknown
One of the hardest parts of being an author is putting together a story that you are certain is amazing, offering it to the world and…nothing. Books that you expect to be flops may be successes, which isn’t a bad thing at all. But the reverse, those books...