DAN ALATORRE

We were fortunate enough to have several bestselling authors contribute to the scary anthology, in hope of getting some spotlight time for them and our other contributing authors. It all helps, believe me. One of them stepped up and penned a prologue that, well, I won’t say what it does. See if you can figure […]

I’m interested in getting your thoughts about stuff I see and hear, quotes I read, stuff that passes as knowledge – and starting an authorey conversation. I discovered this by accident and now I’d like to write every day as though this were tattooed on my forehead. When I made ONE character act this way, […]

your humble host Each week we’re taking five, maybe ten, of YOUR writerly questions and setting about answering them for you.  Ask Dan ANYTHING Skill level doesn’t matter. Newbie writer, veteran writer, you have questions. I’ll opine; maybe some others will chime in with their thoughts, and hopefully YOU will get several good solutions to choose […]

The rain is falling outside my window, and for what seems like the first time in months, I can hear it. Two hours ago I dropped the hellions off at school. Today my sons head to grades six, five, and two. It’s been a busy eight weeks, filled with days of trampoline parks, camping, laser […]

MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT You’ll wanna be here for it. I have a lot going on but over the next 7 days I’m gonna announce several big things. tomorrow is the first one See you tomorrow.

Hi gang!    Most of you know I live in Tampa, Florida, site a big hurricane situation for the last… oh, WEEK or so.      Last night Irma rolled through.  Bottom line, we’re fine.     Lots of wind and not too much rain, zero flooding at our house. (My fireplace dripped for a few […]

One of the things we have been thinking about doing for quite a while is offering online classes or workshops. As part of that, we created the Internet show, “Writers Off Task With Friends,” a fun internet show, and we also signed up to be presenters at this year’s Florida Writers Association conference (October 19 – […]

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I love using the digital proofer at CreateSpace. Here’s the anthology interior, or at least a few screen shots of it, as created by Jenifer Ruff. Gang, this is AMAZING stuff. She did a table of contents with the page numbers listed for each story, a header over every page, some artistic flourishes at the […]