THE WRITING LIFE

Now You Can Blog from Everywhere!

We’ve made it quick and convenient for you to manage your blog from anywhere. In this blog post we’ll share the ways you can post to your...

Design a Stunning Blog

When it comes to design, the Wix blog has everything you need to create beautiful posts that will grab your reader's attention. Check out...

Grow Your Blog Community

With Wix Blog, you’re not only sharing your voice with the world, you can also grow an active online community. That’s why the Wix blog...

Fairy Tales: The Original, Original Horror

Ah, fairy tales. You know, like The Little Mermaid and its happily ever-after ending, where the doe-eyed mermaid gets her legs and...

The Darkness

It sounds corny, cliché, but the truth is that when I saw my mother’s body in the coffin at the wake, she looked…good. Like she was...

Mary Shelly: Genre Bender

It’s the summer of 1816, Switzerland, although it doesn’t feel like it—the eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Tambora has cast the world into...

6 Worst Ways to Get Your Novel Published

Not many writers are happy, Emily Dickenson-like, to write copiously without anyone ever reading a word. And with the occasional writer...

Under the Quill - Interview about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards

Want to get the inside scoop about the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards from 2013 Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror winner J. Lincoln Fenn? Watch and...

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