I am fortunate to be participating in the Writer’s Conference “When Words Collide” this weekend. It is being held in Calgary, Alberta and I will be on two YA Writing panels. I know, for most of you, this is impossible to attend since you aren’t actually in Calgary. For those of you who are, please come by and say “hello”. For details about the Con go to: http://www.whenwordscollide.org/.

I spoke about this very subject on “Get Published”, episode 63 (the last one for those of you who listen) and I wanted to share my thoughts here as well. Guest Blog Posts. Good or Bad? I’ve been giving it a lot of thought, especially as I have seen and participated in several of these myself the past while. In essence, a blogger or blog-site asks various people to write (as a guest) a post on some subject to be displayed on the blog. The key to getting eyes on your page is to provide new and interesting content regularly. Getting someone else to actually write something for your site would do just that and with minimal effort to the site’s […]

I’ve been working towards publication for a long time now. More than ten years, truth-be-told. Granted, I have had some short stories published, but I’m talking books now. Truthfully, there have been times when I wondered if I would ever be successful. That was mostly at the beginning, but there have been bumps in the road the past four or five years. As you know, I signed my first contract last fall (October 2010) for my Young Adult Superhero novel, “Mik Murdoch, Boy Superhero”. You had better believe that I was excited when that happened. I don’t think I quit smiling for a week. But, that was almost a year ago and the book isn’t due out until next spring. […]