Jo Michaels Blog

It's hump day, good people of the blogosphere! That means just two more days until the weekend arrives if you can make it over the hump....

Happy Wednesday, dear people of the blogosphere!! Today, I bring you Kutula from Yassa . He's a character I hear a lot of people fall i...

Trundling along through the Author Blog Challenge. And now, for a new prompt: Describe the research process for your book. Did you inter...

Not really. I don't play basketball. :) Oh, man!! Asking me this is like asking a crack addict what kind of rock they prefer... Who...

Writing prompt 4! These are difficult to answer sometimes... How do the things you read impact your writing? What do you love to read?...

When you ship your manuscript off to an editor, friend, or beta reader, you sit on pins and needles until it makes its way back home. Some w...

I just signed up to participate in the 28 day Author Blog Challenge that is going to run the month of June. It made me laugh when I decided ...

After a weekend of laying on the beach in Florida with the love of my life, I have SO much more in my stash of wonderful things to use in my...

I see so many people make the basic mistake of combining more than two fonts for a book cover or using two different serif or sans-serif fon...

RGB and CMYK - What's the difference? A lot, actually. When you send something to a printer, it needs to be designed in CMYK because t...

Today, I talk about printing. For you indie authors, you need to listen up just in case you decide to print on CreateSpace or another site a...

Today, I post my query letter for a roundtable discussion that will take place via Rachel Horwitz ‏ @rachelhwrites on twitter. Scurry ...

I did an author interview with Jane Hanbury over at Booketta's Book Blog this week and I have to say, it was a lot of fun! I am rarely ...

As you can probably tell, today I am talking about that thing we all shy away from - Dialogue. What makes excellent dialogue? Well, many t...

Bring out the unexpected when you write. If you read your passage and have a good idea of what will happen next, flip it and make something ...

In my post on Bringing Truth to Fiction , I talk about writing what you know. You know how people react in specific situations based on pers...

When one of your beta readers comes up and asks you if you finished your book yet because they really want to know what happens next is the...

How many of you write into the wee hours of the morning? Why do you think you do that? Is it the lack of distractions, the perfect alignme...

A blog is good writing practice. If you do it every day, it can also serve as a warmup before you begin writing in earnest. If you are a fan...

Readers. Are they really as picky and fickle as we believe them to be? You betcha. There's more to it than that though. If you tell a ...