If you're a storyteller, helping you is my full-time job. As a book shaman, I collaborate with novelists and short fiction writers to develop and finish the best stories they can tell. My brand is: Better stories make better people.®
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Working with a Human Narrator
You may not believe me, but I did not choose Amy Melissa Bentley as my narrator because she kinda looks like Illyria di Alamar Forte also known as the Raven Queen and the Goddess of Vengeance. That’s just a happy accident.
I only knew what...
Resistance Is the Muse
📅 In the spirit of Mindset Mondays, which is a practice we do with every Scene Stormers cohort, I’m dropping one of my own practices that I hope you’ll make your own.
This print hangs in two places in my home: above my half of the dress...
The Heartbeat Underneath It All
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That gente lub-dub sound that you hear through a stethoscope, or that pounding in your ears when you’re about to die, isn’t quite what I’m talking about. Close! But it is that viscerally important to you...
What Are You Reading? September 2026 Edition
This past month kicked of with a great deal of productivity on the sekret skwirrel software project because … my business coach is a mean, mean woman. Samara made me cut back on the number of weekly clients that I work with. 😐 It was twelv...
Your Novel's Superpower
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There are at least as many opinions about everything in your novel as there are orifices in the people holding those opinions, and probably a goodly number more. I’m sure you’ve heard people beating var...
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