Bowen Greenwood

The dream haunts all of us who write: "This is a great book! It's going to get out there! People are going to find it! People are going to love it! Word will spread! Bestseller lists!"

And then reality hits.

Self-publishing, alas, is a form of publishing, not a form of writing. That's a business at which most of us aren't all that good. Of the dream, everything between "This is a great book" and "bestseller lists" is closer to magical thinking than it is to a plan, in most of our cases. It...

I'm just writing an authentic believer.

I don't know if my new FMC comes across as too preachy. I don't know if there's too much Bible in her dialogue. I just know that I live and breathe in a community of believers, and this is us. This is our daily conversation. This is how we talk and act.

Her MMC foil is just an authentic person who's not interested in that.

I was raised in the secular world. I lived and breathed it for almost 40 years.

My goal in this story is to "steel man" them both.

The...

These are the things I know about, and that's probably what I should stick to writing..

The Sherman Iron Mysteries have been my most successful recent books. They're about a reporter fighting crime, defending himself with guns, entangled with the court system, in Montana.

"Write what you know" is so well-known it's trite, but stereotypes exist for a reason. It's trite because it's true.

I love science fiction. I love military technothrillers. But I'm at my best when I stick to my own life...