Sonya M. Black

This week’s #SPFBO Author Interview is with Josh Erikson. Josh has been "writing" for twelve years, but only finishing writing for about four of those. He spent most of his adult life working in hospitality management until circumstances lined up well enough to stop that, and now he's trying to tell stories in exchange for money...or anything, really. Pies are also acceptable. He lives in a small town you've never heard of in Nebraska, U.S. with his wife and two young childre

This week's blog post is a bit of short story silliness I wrote one afternoon when I came across this picture. Enjoy! The war had gone on for too long. He stood and stretched, a useless attempt to relieve tired, aching muscles. Sleeping on the hard ground had long ago lost its appeal. His enemies circled, watching his slow, ponderous movements. They weighed their chances of success. They wanted his perch, but he refused to give it up. Three brave ones inched closer, tails hel

This week’s #SPFBO Interview is with AJ VanOrden. AJ has spent most of his life dabbling in escapism and fantasy in one way or another: devouring novels, making fun of movies, or sacrificing whole weekends on the altar of role-play gaming. He currently does the work of three people by day, and assembles intricately woven -yet entertaining - lies whenever the demands of sleep and the small red-headed monster he and his wife summoned allow." What drew you to self-publishing? I

Summer is wrapping up. Back to school is almost here at my house. Two more weeks and it’s over. Teachers are headed back into the classroom, putting the final touch on lessons plans, and making sure everything is ready for the big day. Parents are headed to the stores to get school supplies, and kids are squirming and whining that summer is almost over while secretly yearning to return because they’re sooooo boooored. What’s a writer to do? Write. That’s what. My son is back

This week’s #SPFBO Author Interview is with Emerald Dodge. She is a debut author of superhero urban fantasy. A Virginia native, she is married to Alex, a nuclear electrician in the US Navy, with whom she has two young sons. When she is not writing, Emerald enjoys cooking, baking, reading, going to Mass, and FaceTiming her many relatives around the nation. Alex and Emerald look forward to moving to new stations and states, and they love to make new friends wherever they go. Wh

Rules and writers have a love/hate relationship. We adore them when they work for us and make writing easier. We hate them with a fiery passion reserved for the person who ate the last piece of chocolate when they impede our sense of artistic reason. There are many lists of so-called writing rules out there. Often couched in terms of “Never” and “Always,” they cause even the most mild-mannered of writers to break out the pitchforks and torches. This list is one I hope every w