Michel Sauret – Award-Winning Army Journalist | Independent Author Award-Winning Army Journalist, Independent Author

This is the third year running for the IndieReader Discovery Awards, which is devoted specifically to self-published authors (though small-press authors can also enter). Some authors have complained about the hefty price tag for entering ($150), which on face value, ...

I was in the Dallas/Fort Worth area a little while back for an Army-required conference I had to attend. When I go on TDY (which stands for Temporary Duty), I try to check out places I normally wouldn’t go to. ...

  In April, I’ll be hosting a workshop on writing short stories. To prepare, I reached out to a few authors and asked them why they think short stories are still relevant and valuable in today’s age. This is what a ...

I’ve been working on my next novel, “Jump,” which is about a boy who grows up in a fundamentalist Christian household where his parents test his faith each year by forcing him to jump off the tree in his back ...

A friend on facebook, who also runs a book-review blog called “Shattering Words,” shared this photo with me, and even though I’m a writer, it took me a while to figure out what it meant. (Maybe I was brain dead ...

I felt a sense of being buried alive when I recently visited Wet Ink’s website and saw this note: Wet ink is closing down It is with great regret we have to announce that Wet Ink is closing down after seven ...

When I was studying at Fiction writing at Pitt, I had a professor, Jeff Martin, who had us do a really clever exercise. He gave us the assignment to interview one of our characters. He said that sometimes to figure ...