Monica has been a contributor to FlamesRising.com for several years. She has written a variety of news articles, essays, convention reports, licensed fiction and plenty of reviews. Some highlights of her fiction reviews are: Small Favor by Jim Butcher Ironside by Holly Black Season of the Witch by Natasha Motert Name on the Wind by […]
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Using Keywords to Sell Your Work
As more newspapers struggle to keep in print, like the Capital Times here in Madison, readers, job seekers, and house hunters will continue to turn to online sources to find what they’re looking for. The reverse, however, is also true. Just as you try to find work, there are ways to make your work more […]
Winter Got you Down? Things to do in Madison to Cheer You Up!
Well, the snow has been really intense this year and as several of my friends have pointed out — it’s been a long winter. Yes, we probably were due for one and with all this cold and wintry weather, the upside is that it has to be great for the farmers. I’m very much looking […]
Make a Real Living as a Freelance Writer
How to Win Top Writing Assignments Secrets are revealed about what the high-paying magazines really want, how to build relationships with editors, how to ascertain which sections of a magazine are open to freelancers, what kinds of stories are in demand, what to do if a deadbeat publisher doesn’t pay up, how to market reprints, […]
The Trouble with Over-Editing
One of the things that has afflicted my fiction writing lately, is that I’ve been editing while I write. I have a series of urban fantasy novels I’m plotting out; the novel series is dubbed, “The Violet War.” The first book, entitled “Traitor’s Masque,” is about the events leading up to a full-scale war between […]