When I first started writing, whenever I would reach a point of climax in the story, I’d break and recap in a new scene. Needless to say, none of those stories ever saw the light of publication. (Don’t try this at home.)

It wasn’t until I learned to press into crisis points that I produced a story worth publishing. DawnSinger, book one of my epic fantasy trilogy, Tales of Faeraven releases this fall.

Interestingly enough, when I received edits for DawnSinger, most of the notes calling for revision centered around, you guessed it, crisis scenes. The next lesson I had to learn was that…

With so many people on social media sites nowadays, it’s tempting to ask yourself if you should forget about driving traffic to your Web site and just focus on marketing elsewhere. Why not go where people are already instead of making what can seem like a herculean effort to drive traffic to your site?

The answer to this question is…