by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author  I didn’t go to school to learn how to write. Well, maybe I did. I went to school to learn to be a journalist, specifically for printed newspapers, if you can believe that. The degree I graduated college with doesn’t even exist at my alma mater…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Being an author has never been easy, but to a certain extent it’s a straightforward career path. Write a great book. Work with a great publisher. Sell your books. Repeat. But for those of you who have been at it for many years, you know it’s…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Publication is one of the most challenging milestones you can achieve in your life as an author. Getting published means that a business sees enough worth and value in your work to invest in it and in you, and that’s a big deal. Make no mistake…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author One of my college fiction professors once said that good authors need to know a little about a lot of things. As a nineteen-year-old aspiring author, I resonated with the statement. It made perfect sense. Of course you had to know about lots of different things.…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author Many moons ago, I was invited to visit a missionary down in the jungles of northern Guatemala. He asked me to write a script that would be translated and performed with puppets for a community of indigenous people. As we began the process of creating the…

by A.C. Williams @ACW_Author The hardest part of this whole “career author” thing is making the time to get words on the page. Saying it out loud doesn’t make it sound difficult. Surely it’s not that much of a challenge to sit down at a word processor or typewriter and…