Welcome to Scribbler’s author spotlight series — an interview with our subscription box‘s monthly author! Each month, we’ll interview the author of our featured book to help you learn a little more about them and their writing process. This month’s spotlight is on Mary Ellen Taylor. Their novel The Brighter The Light, was our July read. You can find The Brighter The Light for sale anywhere books are sold. When a shipwreck surfaces, old...

It’s almost impossible to overstate the importance of a great story opening for your book. An agent will decide whether or not to request more of your manuscript based on those first pages. Your friends and acquaintances will decide whether or not to finish it or put it down (and hope you don’t ask if they’ve read it). Strangers will carry your book to the literal or virtual checkout counter...

You’ve probably read all the tips on how to construct a mesmerizing mystery, replete with intriguing characters, interesting storylines, and enough red herrings to tickle your sleuthing abilities in a complex whodunit.  But we would like to share with you all the ways you can ruin a potentially riveting mystery, causing us to put down your book and ban you from our reading list forever. Create unlikeable protagonists (self-centered, immoral,...

Welcome to Scribbler’s newest series — an interview with our subscription box‘s monthly author! Each month, we’ll interview the author of our featured book to help you learn a little more about them and their writing process. This month’s bonus spotlight is on Jeff Wheeler. His novel The Druid, was our July read. You can find The Druid for sale anywhere books are sold. An abandoned child becomes a singular inspiration to the mythology...

One thing I’ve noticed as a prevalent thought in the writing community is that one must give “harsh truths” and rip a piece to shreds for it to be rewritten into something better.  I disagree.  Sometimes a project needs a lot of changes, but there are ways to give that feedback where the writer feels energized to make those necessary changes rather than downtrodden. Editing is an integral part of...

Hello. My name is RJ and I’m in the closet. The writer’s closet.  Disclaimer: This is my first official writing credit. Woohoo! For perhaps the first time, I found a way to make my insecurities work for me by turning them into a pitch. And wouldn’t it be amazing if they worked for someone else too? If this article helps even one person come out of the writer’s closet I...

As much as we’d all like to deny it, writing isn’t always easy. Ideas don’t always flow. Inspiration isn’t always readily available. Suboptimal life circumstances dampen the creative flow. And none of us are strangers to the dreaded imposter syndrome, when doubts about our abilities assault us so viciously we feel like a fraud even calling ourselves a writer. We’ve all found ourselves in that negative mindspace, but you don’t...

Welcome to Scribbler’s newest series — an interview with our subscription box‘s monthly author! Each month, we’ll interview the author of our featured book to help you learn a little more about them and their writing process. This month’s bonus spotlight is on Kilby Blades. Her novel It Takes a Villa, was our bonus June read. You can find It Takes A Villa for sale anywhere books are sold. For the reasonable price of...