Goal-Setting in 2017

Do you ever wonder why your resolutions always falling flat within the first few months? Read and find out how you can create resolutions that will last.

ONE WEEK LEFT!

Hey everyone!As most of you know already I am offering my book for free through the Story Cartel website. It has been up there for 14 days already and today begins your last week to get it. You can download it for free by going here: http://www.storycartel.com/books/the-trials-of-the-core Now, the cool thing about Story Cartel is …

Trials of the Core FREE through Story Cartel!

Okay, so in an effort to get more publicity and reviews out for my book, The Trials of the Core, I have decided to undertake a marketing effort that I haven’t heard about at all. It’s called Story Cartel! I found it through BookBaby (which is what I use to publish my ebooks). Anyways, this …

Moby Dick – A Review

Aahh, the “Great-American Novel” as many scholars call it–Moby Dick. Normally, I would not have picked this book up because of it’s sheer complexity. But, now that I am a secondary education major of English and may need to be versed in this book for teaching purposes I found it useful to actually read it. …

Looking Back on 2013

What. An. Adventure. I couldn’t find a better way to word it. Trust me, if there was, I would have, I’m an author after all Anyways, let me explain what I mean by that. This year I have had some pretty significant developments happen. At the beginning of 2013 I said that I would publish …

Supporting an Author

Hey everyone, It is Christmas time. That means a bunch of things. It means, if you're in college, you are on Winter Break currently and just got done with finals. (Congratulations I hope it went well for you). At any age it means celebrating time off with the family. In Wisconsin and the Midwest it …

An International Review

Hey everyone, So, more good news. Another review came in this one was from a, Nadia Batista, who lives in Portugal and has read my book. She gave it a ★★★★ 4 Star review on Goodreads. That is awesome on so many different levels. Hopefully it starts picking up some international steam now. That would …

A Delayed December Launch

Hey everyone, Alright so this is the saddest thing in the world to announce (at least for me) but I have been promoting my official book launch for December 10th, for forever now it seems. And alas, I do not believe it is going to happen (unless a miracle happens). In truth, I am not …

Why I Can Never Compete in NanoWrimo…

Okay, this is a personal confession, although I am an author I have never competed in NanoWrimo. For those of you who do not know what this is it is New Novel November Month. Pretty much you write an entire novel in one month. I know, as an author, I feel ashamed for admitting the …

What can be Improved Upon in English College Courses (Part 2)

So, in the first part of this topic I discussed why teachers shouldn’t really be limiting the writing ability of creative writing students. Here is another topic that I feel needs to get addressed while we are critiquing the English college curriculum. Alright, so it has been argued that many people go to college just …