Vacancy joins The Dust Series! Read all the latest plaudits and praise the second book in The Dust Series, Vacancy, is garnering, from reviews to interviews.

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A sudden widow. A single mother. Both have a habit of hiding from hard truths until a brutal accident-or was it?-forces them to face what they re hiding, and what they want, in an unforgiving Texas to...

When it comes to storytelling, fear is more than a feeling; it’s an underlying force that runs through multiple story elements, influencing plot, character arc, internal growth, and conflict. Fear mak...

You've heard of the hero's journey. What about the villain's journey? A strong villain drives your story for the first half of a novel.

If Virginia Woolfe was right when she wrote, “the truer the facts the better the fiction” in her classic A Room of One’s Own, there’s no better inspiration for writing a story than a true one. Find an...

Texas Reads Women’s Fiction with Jann Alexander Like a Texas road trip that can seem daunting, women’s fiction is all about the journey. Both are colorful, fun, informative, and often […]

To be a good writer, you should be a good reader, but is reading all those published works really advantageous for your writing?

Outside the usual autumn stuff, what else does the season hold for you annually?

If Virginia Woolfe was right when she wrote, “the truer the facts the better the fiction” in her classic A Room of One’s Own, there’s no better inspiration for writing a story than a true one. Find an...

VACANCY: Secrets and Second Chances in Small-Town Texas By Jann Alexander Women’s Fiction / Mystery and Crime Publisher: Black Rose Writing Publication Date: September 24, 2026 SYNOPSIS A struggling s...

There’s a saying in real estate, that it’s all about location. Location. Location. Location. It’s just as true in writing historical novels.

I wrote a letter to my characters, because they will always be with me, even after Vacancy is published, progressing through joy, pain, and growth, just like I do.

How blogging has inadvertently taken me towards a more positive approach of acceptance, with a focus on what’s good.

Letting A.I. patrol its own frontier is like asking Jesse James to patrol the Wild West.

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With work that breathed the spirit of the 1960s, he became fabulously wealthy from licensing his paintings and posters in all their euphoric Day-Glo glory.

If Virginia Woolfe was right when she wrote, “the truer the facts the better the fiction” in her classic A Room of One’s Own, there’s no better inspiration for writing a story than a true one. Find an...

Let yourself become enveloped by the natural beauty in Big Bend National Park, Texas, in twelve photos.

Being multi-faceted as an author makes you a stronger writer. Don't mistake that that means you have to be as good at the other things as you are at writing to make it matter. That is far from the tru...

The Verdict Is In! Kirkus Book Reviews says, Get It, of Vacancy: Secrets and Second Chances in Small-Town Texas — New fiction in The Dust Series, and based on a true story.