KL Forslund

The coronavirus has crept into my affairs. No, I don’t have it. I’ve got the allergies again, pollen season ramped up in February and by March, I am sneezey...

Last week, I caught wind that an author I’d met long ago had their books stolen and put for sale on a pirate site. They had the situation well in hand, but t...

Do you ever wish you had the ear of the engineers of a product you use. You could whisper ideas and suggestions based on your experience and need. They’d l...

I used to think I was pretty good at writing. I could turn out a clever phrase and churn out pages of readable content.Then I started writing to get publish...

What can you do when you are 400 words short of the word count requirement in a story? A writer friend asked that this week, so I took a stab at it and jott...

I was looking for Alexa articles to read, when I came across one from the Irish Times. The author gives a good chiding in what I imagined an Irish accent ab...

Imagine, if you will, upgrading your house, making it better, faster, smarter. Then one day, nothing works, because a vendor’s server is down. That happened...

Ever want to make something work, and dig into it deeper than anybody else? And then, you find the secret, the thing that other people struggled with. Now ...

People ask me questions, because I’m a Know-It-All. I try to be a good one and share what I know, what I can deduce, and admit what I don’t know. Lately, I...

I’ve done pretty well recruiting a team of volunteer beta readers. Like me, they’re all busy, so out of eleven readers, only two or three can read any piece...

In the novel I’m writing, technomage Alex Rune uses a hacked version of Siri-like technology to cast spells. After checking with my early adopter friends, i...

This FAQ is aimed at new writers and thus I’ve captured the kinds of questions I see most often plus a few I think should have been asked. If you have a que...

Everybody gets criticism. And many of us don’t receive it as well as we would like to. That’s the diplomatic way of saying we bollox the whole thing up. T...

Hurricane Harvey did not kill me. Or my house. Or my lawn. It’s just wet. In fact, it started raining again as I started this week’s blog entry. Right n...

Introduction If you followed the previous article, you have a website, a Facebook Page and a Twitter account. If you followed directions, you’ve been lookin...

Introduction When I started this article, I was planning to simply document the things I did to setup my website for my fellow Woodlands Writers Guild member...

Another weekend, another chance to work on the Author Platform. At this point, GoDady handles my domain name and email redirection so that me@klforslund.com ...

This is a bit of a test while I see how Wix works, but here we go. I am working to get published by following the ancient path of submitting short stories to...