Dan Desai Martin

I am late getting to this, but I participated in #SFFpit on Twitter near the end of February. It was my first time participating, so here are my not-so-initial thoughts.

An infinite number of monkeys at infinite keyboards may eventually hammer out Shakespeare, but I’m no monkey and I don’t have infinite time. And like many writers, I suffer from

Let’s do this. While 2021 was the year I wrote and edited a manuscript, 2022 is the year I will find a literary agent, sell my manuscript, and be on

I was so excited when I finished my first draft. I was riding high, king of the world, on cloud nine, and whatever other tired cliches you want to add

Sometimes you are the bug. Sometimes you are the windshield. Yesterday, I was the bug. I sent my manuscript to a professional editor. This was after six beta readers had

What was the most nerve-wracking experience of writing a book? It was every single time I sent any part of my manuscript to someone to read. Pressing that ‘send’ button

One of the most helpful and fun aspects of writing a book was a monthly gathering with two others in a writing group. The three of us were at various

Editing my first book was a struggle. You get that joy of finishing a draft, and you want to coast on that high for a while. It feels great. After

The digital revolution created a huge space for independent authors to get their works directly into the hands of consumers. Authors no longer had to go through the Big Five

It is hard to describe the amount of joy an author feels when finishing their first novel. For me, it was a June morning – a Thursday – around 11