By Amy Bright @AmyBrightwriter Marketing is the full-time job many novelists never expected to have! Marketing, in fact, can keep authors from moving forward as they fear they’ll have to spend precious time on their marketing content instead of their fiction or devotionals or other callings. Rather than looking at…

By Amy Bright @AmyBrightwriter This year I had the joy of teaching Historical European Martial Arts (HEMA) and stage combat at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference. After each class and during the 15 minute strategy sessions, students asked questions about their specific fight scenes. Because several general questions…

By Amy Bright @AmyBrightwriter You’re involved in world building even if you aren’t writing sci-fi/fantasy, the genres we usually associate with the term “world building.” Your fictional universes may parallel our “real world,” but they’re always written through your mind and heart.  For many authors, being a “sub-creator” is a…