by William Miller | Oct 15, 2026 | Writing
Ask the average Joe what a writer’s day looks like and you will hear something wonderful. There is a cabin in the woods, a fancy pen, a steaming cup of coffee, and words flowing like a river. Reality is a little less cinematic, and a lot funnier. Here are six...
by William Miller | Oct 8, 2026 | Writing
If you are thinking about self-publishing your first novel, you probably heard the cheerful version of the story. Write a great book, upload it, and readers will find it. I wish it worked that way. The real picture looks a little different, and most of the hard parts...
by William Miller | Jun 25, 2025 | Writing
Series fiction readers are addicts. Once they’re hooked on your characters and world, they want more. Not next month, not next year—right now. They’ll binge-read your entire series in a weekend, forget to eat, ignore their responsibilities, and dream about...
by William Miller | Jun 16, 2025 | Design, Writing
Bottom Line Up Front: Most indie authors lose massive amounts of money because they make predictable, expensive mistakes that can be avoided with proper planning. Authors who succeed understand that publishing is a business, not a hobby, and they invest strategically...
by William Miller | May 30, 2025 | Writing
Bottom Line Up Front: Binge-watching culture has fundamentally altered reader expectations for pacing, chapter structure, and series release schedules. Smart thriller authors who adapt streaming narrative techniques—short chapters with cliffhangers, accelerated...
by William Miller | Mar 30, 2023 | Writing
The AI revolution is here. What does that mean for fiction authors? If you listen to the doomsday alarmists, AI technology is either set to put us human authors out of business, or end the world as we know it. Nuclear Catastrophic GIFfrom Nuclear GIFs Allow me...
