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

People often wonder where authors get their story ideas, so I wanted to start a series of blog posts dedicated to how I came up with the stories in my collection, Amidst Traffic. The idea for Duct Tape People actually ...

Book: Taking Flight Author: Adrian R. Magnuson Publisher: Pink Fish Press “Taking Flight” takes off with a strong premise: A 13-year-old boy named Jeremy goes off on a fugitive road trip with an elderly man named Harry who is on ...

  The following is an essay I wrote a few years ago after my experience as a breaking news reporter/intern at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.   PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh police are investigating a body found dead in Bloomfield this morning. The body ...

Back in April, I wrote a book review of “Fires of Our Choosing,” which is a solid collection of short stories, and the author, Eugene Cross, graciously agreed to provide an autographed copy of the book as a giveaway through ...

I’ve hosted this workshop (Self Publishing: Removing the Stain and Stigma) around Pittsburgh with a great response every time from those who attended. Usually when I run this workshop, I put out a lot of information, so I wanted to make ...

I try not to play the victim or Woe-is-Me card when my work is rejected or when it receives a poor review. But recently I experienced a rejection that made me pause and ponder on the state of literature, Christian ...

  I’ve been invited by the Shaler Library to host a workshop on Self Publishing next Wednesday (April 24). I would love it if you passed this on and told a few friends! I will have copies of “Amidst Traffic” ...