In this blog, Andrew shares announcements and updates about his work, insights and advice regarding various aspects of writing and a writer’s life, in addition to pictures from events he has attended and of inscribed books he owns.

2019

Establishing Characters’ Motives

Beta Readers, Critique Groups

Guest Appearance at Shortprose!

Thank You

What Banned Books Week is all about

Author Interview with M. J. Patrick

Herbs in Mystical Greenwood

Life imitating Art

Inscribed #3

Interview with author Andrew McDowell

My Interview with Vonnie Winslow Crist

2018

The Importance of Names (Video)

National Author’s Day

Believe in Your Writing, and Yourself

Gryphons and Dragons and Unicorns!

Looking Back on Summer

Questions of Narrative and Tense

WOLF NOTES: An Uncommon Interview – Andrew McDowell

Distinguishable Characters

Kindle Users, It’s Finally Here!

Errors and Typos

Order Mystical Greenwood Now!

Count your Lucky Length

2017

Status of Mystical Greenwood

Another Year

Edit, Revise, Rewrite

The Four P’s of Getting Published

Cover Art: Mystical Greenwood

Formatting a Manuscript

Moving on to the Next Step

Inscribed #2

Nom de Plume

Pronunciation

Fact vs. Fiction

Jan. ’17 edition of Pen in Hand

2016

A Contract has been Signed!

Write in Right Now

Inscribed

Victorian Monsters

Social Media

Building Worlds

Off the Page

What’s in a Name?

Prologues

The Tide of Technology

Writer’s Block: A New Perspective

Rejection, Criticism, & A Writer’s Virtues

2015

Why Do I Write?