#IndieAuthors #Blogging (Beth Turnage Blog) In this post: Do fiction writers need an author platform? Explore what research reveals about blogging, reader engagement, and building your audience. Do fiction writers need an author platform? Ask ten writers, agents, and publishers, and you'll probably get eleven opinions. Maybe twelve. Some insist that you can't hope to attract a literary agent or publisher without a substantial online following.

#AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Horror (Beth Turnage Blog) This is a repost of an entry from 2017, but since we are all getting spammed by phone nowadays and it's spooky season, I'll refresh it as a phone solicitation. And yes, the grammar errors are intentional. Recorded message: This is Orrin Orrick, Attorney, with an update on your funding request for inheritance funds. …

#Amwriting #WritingCommunity #Writers (Beth Turnage Blog) Coming Up Short? You May Be Skipping Your Character’s Feelings I’ve been reading a novelist whose first two books have me looking at the story through my developmental editor’s lens. Occupational hazard. Once you spend enough time figuring out why a scene doesn’t work, it’s difficult to turn that part of your brain off.

(Beth Turnage Blog) I am more than the sum of my parts! Interview with social media influencer, interior artist, and creator of ARIA™ ASMR—Re Sult Insects trilled and chirped a white wall of noise at 10,000 Hz. Under the bed where Re lay to capture the full effect of the ASMR, languid waters of 600 nanometers lapped against cypress tree roots at a velocity of one kilometer per hour.

(Beth Turnage Blog) Note: This post examines publishing-program costs and refund policies to help you make an informed decision about whether a program fits your goals and budget. Part 3 of 6: The Truth About Self-Publishing Programs Read Part 1: The $20,000 Passive Income Lie | Read Part 2: The Real Cost of Self-Publishing The money-back guarantee is what makes you feel safe enough to buy it.

Welcome to our Charity Sunday blog hop for September. I didn’t even need to think about what charity to support this month. And yet, I’m...

#SFFReaders #SFFWriters #WritingCommunity (Beth Turnage Blog) It was a perfectly lovely day in Colorado. There was no rain. The temperature was a balmy 80 degrees. No humidity, of course, but I, the AI who monitored weapons systems for the guvmint—that's how the humans say it, though I never understood why—I am about to suffer an existential meltdown that may cause a system shutdown and very inconvenient probing of my architecture, because I definitely don't want the humans to see what I've been thinking about there.

(Beth Turnage Blog) Years ago, Chuck Wending would sponsor a weekly storytelling contest on his blog Terrible Minds, based on prompts he posted, which was a lot of fun. Then he gave it up. Awww. Now that I have my aggregatory SFFBloggers up and running, I had a wild thought to promote blogging and SFF writing in general, that we writers can gather around a hashtag, #saturdaystorytime, and write and post whole stories of at least 300 words or our WIP excerpts on our blogs.

(Beth Turnage Blog) A SAD TALE: Years ago, I started SFF Bloggers.com, an aggregator of science fiction and fantasy blogs. I had other aggregators for different topics, and one in particular got a respectable number of views. Why couldn't an aggregator work in the fiction realm too! But SFF Blogger, within a year of operation, broke because of changes in WordPress architecture.

(Beth Turnage Blog) Professor Halloran stood before the class and adjusted the display behind him. “HTML was not technically a programming language. It was a markup language. Notice the paired opening and closing tags. This forced early internet users to think hierarchically.” Madison raised her hand. “But why didn’t they just tell the AI what they wanted the page to look like?”

Here’s the next snippet from my newly-released historical romance novel, LETTERS TO ELLIE (The Lost Slipper Society, book two): Eloise drooped. “Does it matter if he doesn’t love me enough to…

Book Hooks: Pleasure House Ball: Lady Armstrong scrabbled for an excuse for her being at a scandalous ball. #RegencyRomance #BookHooks #EroticRomance #ReadARegency

A murder. A rockstar. An obsession.LA’s trashiest crime app, WeHo Beat, blasted the image across my phone—two patrol cars, an ambulance, flashing lights behind high-end iron gates. The breathless voic...

A year after he walked away from rock star Rik Drake, Detective Jessick Justix is focused, sharp, and buried in work. The LAPD has rules, and he intends to follow them all—starting with no contact wit...