Scammers are getting so good, and AI is only helping! I used to get the occasional lovely note from a reader via my website. Now 100% of the 20 emails I get each week are from writing marketers and scammers. I got the above inquiry last week. Unlike the unbelievable situations where the head of a major publishing house emailed to beg for my next manuscript, or writing service people who promise I’ll gain 5 million followers by tomorrow, this one shows all sorts of finesse. It

Listen NOW! Thank you so much Kenneth B. Humphrey and Luella Schmidt for hosting me on The Midwest Writing Room podcast and YouTube channel sponsored by the Wisconsin Writers Association! The episode is available via podcast and/or this YouTube link. I hope the above clip encourages you to check out the interview in which I talk about my latest novel, SCATTERED LIGHT (Mary Donahue Chronicles), my Chicago roots, my number 1 advice for writers, and why, for some of us, writing

I joined the California Writers Club eons ago when I first moved to the state. I’m still involved years later because what an impressive organization! According to the Website history: The informal gatherings of Jack London, poet George Sterling and short story writer Herman Whitaker, among others, eventually formed the Press Club of Alameda. In 1909, a faction of the membership split off to form the California Writers Club with Austin Lewis, an English civil libertarian, as

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