October 2025 Meetup
Monthly member meetup. All are welcome. Note we are going to meet the 4th week of October this month at the Arts Council of Carteret County building in the Big Rock Room.
My Journey to Writing Science Fiction
I grew up in the space age, which drew me to reading science fiction. In elementary school, I started with Jules Verne novels before finding Ray Bradbury and many more authors over the years. I wanted to write science fiction stories as I got older. Decades later, after dozens of magazines published my contemporary and
Motivation for the Writer
I host a creative writing class at the New Bern Library the second Tuesday of each month. I started in September 2023 with a discussion about motivation. So, I’ll blog about that since I’m always in need of motivation to write (and other things, too). I found motivation to be in two parts. One is
Member Spotlight: Barb McCreary
I am so excited to get to know this member! She is always smiling and ready to lend a helping hand whenever needed. Her book Ebb and Flow is a personal favorite, and I highly recommend it to all our local young readers. Please enjoy! Favorite book as a child and why? The Road to
Marketing your book on a budget: tips and strategies for indie authors
In 2018, I launched Les Stone Cold Killers, the lazily-titled first book of my campy Cold War YA adventure series Perilous and Sparks. At the time, Jack was occupied with renovating our old sailboat, and I was keeping the family afloat financially with my income as a copywriter. Read: we didn’t have much spare cash
