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10 Paranormal Romance Writing Prompts
Ready to write your own paranormal romance? Here are ten prompts to get you started. Giving it a historical twist adds a whole new layer of intrigue and excitement.
How to Say No
I’m deep into edits for my third middle grade novel (release sate May 1, 2025) and working on finalizing the first draft of a new adult paranormal series. When writing my previous two books, I learned that the secret to success
AI Training: What Every Author Needs to Know about Book Piracy
A great hullabaloo arose in Author World over an article recently published by The Atlantic. It blows open the extent to which companies like Meta are using pirated books to train their AI models. LibGen is the pirated books data base and it now houses millions of books
How I Use AI as an Author—and Where I Draw the Line
An indie author explains how she uses AI for brainstorming, research, editing, marketing and publishing while keeping creative control. This practical, nuanced guide covers KDP, Draft2Digital and IngramSpark policies, copyright concerns, AI-generated images, fact-checking and the boundaries that keep the human author responsible for the finished work.
I’m Not Writing to Prove Myself Anymore
For a very long time, I treated writing as a referendum on my worth. Not consciously, perhaps — but emotionally? That was often the system running underneath everything. Lately, though, something has been changing. I’m still ambitious. I still want readers. But I no longer want to build a creative life fuelled entirely by pressure.
The Quiet Work No One Sees When You Publish a Book
Most readers only ever see the finished book — the cover reveal, the launch announcement, the polished novel sitting beautifully on a shelf. What they don’t see is the enormous iceberg beneath it: the revisions, technical problems, newsletters, graphics, scheduling, emotional resilience, and hundreds of small invisible tasks required to build a creative career over time.