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

(The feature image at the top of this post belongs to Disturbet) Everybody knows that word of mouth is the MOST effective method of selling and promoting your book. But that puts you (the author) in the passanger seat, not the ...

I haven’t read a novel with such beautiful and yet such unpretentious prose since college while studying contemporary literary fiction at Pitt. The writing moves like poetry, which is appropriate given the book revolves around a world of music: A ...

Note: This is a chapter excerpt from my upcoming novel, JUMP.  This is a work of fiction. —   Protesters. It didn’t matter what religion you were, what political lever you pulled, whether you smoked marijuana or were against it, ...

Remember how Jesus said, “Love your enemies?” The same has to be true for those characters you hate when you write a novel. I’ve been watching a lot of Lost on Netflix with my wife lately. We’re absolutely hooked on ...

A while ago a book-reader friend of mine shared a link to her pastor’s blog, specifically an where he discusses the reasons for why he writes. That prompted the question: Why do I write? Why do I have such a passion for this ...

Last week, I wrote a brief post about Writer’s Edge and how I discovered them. Here I wanted to share with you the feedback I received on Amidst Traffic: You are a fine writer—with perhaps an affection for Sherwood Anderson’s ...

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 ...