I have used AI for about a year now—back when it still felt like magic and not like negotiating with a customs agent. But over the past three months, my conversations with…
Author: Eddie Jones
The Guy Writing App
Announcing “The Guy” Writing App — A FREE writing tool for fiction and nonfiction authors. Built for you — the writer who wishes they had someone like Guy Owen reading their work…
Do the Dead Stay Dead? — Monsters, Mummies, and the Dead Walking Out of Graves
Let’s be honest. When most people hear the word “mummy,” they picture some shuffling, bandage-wrapped Egyptian stumbling out of a sarcophagus with his arms stretched out, moaning. Which, when you think about…
Where Did Amazon Ads Portfolio Go?
Can’t find your Amazon Ads Portfolio feature? Don’t see it in the left-hand navigation menu? Here is how to find it. Step-by-Step Instructions Go to Campaigns: Log into your Amazon Ads account…
The Funniest Trick in Writing. Here Are Two Reasons Why. And a Third
You want to be funnier on the page? Want to know the funniest trick in writing? Funny makes readers feel like they’ve found a friend, not just a book. Here’s the single…
If You Can Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs… You May Be in a Book
So there I was in Sleepy Hollow, New York — officially the sleepiest and creepiest town name in America, beating out such strong contenders as Deadman’s Gulch, Montana and Dismal Seepage, Ohio…
What Do You Get When You Cross a 13-Year-Old, a Ghost Town, and a Dead Body? Bad Vacation. Great Book
An acquiring editor once asked me to describe The Caden Chronicles in one sentence. I said, “A kid goes to haunted places, discovers they’re not really haunted, and nearly gets killed anyway.”…
Nothing Goes Right — Why Every Novelist Needs to Blow Up Their Story
Nothing Goes Right; Now Make It Worse I have taped a note to my monitor for twenty years that says: When nothing goes right, your story is strong. I keep taping it…
Learn How to Plot From the All Time Best Selling Author
Before Save the Cat. Before Story Trumps Structure. Before every MFA program that charged you $60,000 to learn what you could have read for free, there was a guy who stood on…
Why Disney Has Been Quietly Recycling This Wicked Queen for Years
I want to talk about the scariest villain I have never actually encountered as an amateur detective. She is not a vampire. She is not a zombie. She has never once shambled…