# novel part (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover novel part. Page: Feed: --- ## [Spilling the August Tea](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/spilling-the-august-tea) _2026-08-01 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ plus, an interview with H. K. Sears ## [Spilling the July Tea](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/spilling-the-july-tea) _2026-07-01 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ plus, an interview with Jen Woodrum ## [Spilling the June Tea](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/desire-and-deceit-arcs) _2026-06-01 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ ARCs, newsletters, and too many book recs :) ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part Six](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part-982) _2026-05-27 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ a success ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part Five](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part-a2b) _2026-05-27 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ NaNoWriMo, when that was a thing ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part Four](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part-082) _2026-05-27 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ too many ideas, too little confidence ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part Three](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part-e6b) _2026-05-27 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ the feedback ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part Two](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part-4f2) _2026-05-15 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ writing as therapy ## [How to Fail at Writing a Novel, Part One](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/how-to-fail-at-writing-a-novel-part) _2026-05-01 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ the middle school novel ## [Desire & Deceit COVER REVEAL](https://jodimariemeyer.substack.com/p/desire-and-deceit-cover-reveal) _2026-05-01 · JodiMarie Meyer · JodiMarie Spills the Tea!_ release date and ARC signups :) ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gnX2My4V2LYZ) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [The Art of Combat in Ghost of Yōtei](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2026/04/21/the-art-of-combat-in-ghost-of-yotei/) _2026-04-22 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ As a professional fight director ... and a lifelong player of video games ... Ghost of Yõtei has the most interesting and artistically satisfying combat experience of any game I've ever played. ## [Ten Steps to Outline a Novel—Part Two](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2026/01/24/ten-steps-to-outline-a-novel-part-two/) _2026-01-25 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ This is the second half of my novel outlining process (here’s the first half, with steps 1–4). At this point, you should already have a story you’re excited about with main character and an arc. Time to flesh it out a bit. Step Five: Choose a Framework So, you’ve got a main character, a beginning \[ \] ## [Ten Steps to Outline a Novel—Part One](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2026/01/22/ten-steps-to-outline-a-novel-part-one/) _2026-01-23 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ A friend recently asked me for tips and resources on “how to plot a novel.” I gave her some quick thoughts over the phone, but since I’m in the middle of plotting a novel myself at the moment, I thought I’d write out my process as an extended answer. Note first that 1) while I’ve \[ \] ## [2025 Year in Review](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2025/12/30/2025-year-in-review/) _2025-12-31 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ When I started this blog in 2018, my plan was to write a Year in Review post every December, hoping to document a trail of continued progress and success as a writer. And for a few years, I kinda did. \[1\] Then the pandemic hit, and everything went sideways. It took me a long, long \[ \] ## [Returning to the Stack](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/returning-to-the-stack) _2025-10-22 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Recovery is proceeding well... but slooooooowly. ## [Surgery Today](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/surgery-today) _2025-09-10 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ My apologies to my subscribers for the lack of content lately. ## [What’s Going On Here](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2025/08/14/whats-going-on-here/) _2025-08-15 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ This is the online writing home of Tony Pisculli (I do other stuff in other places). You can find links to my published stories and interactive fiction, with notes on produced plays coming soon. The best place to start, if you re new here, is probably this roundup of short stories I wrote for Inktober in \[ \] ## [Silver Empire: Our Second Novel, Part Three](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/silver-empire-our-second-novel-part-1db) _2025-08-04 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ We have liftoff ## [State of the Substack, August 2025](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/state-of-the-substack-august-2025) _2025-08-01 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Sharing ALL my numbers ## [Selling Books: Nobody's Coming To Save You](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/selling-books-nobodys-coming-to-save) _2025-08-01 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Even if you have a publisher, you MUST learn to market your own book. ## [Save with community-voted codes (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/OirouTROCutk) _2025-08-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search thousands of community-verified coupon codes — 100% free, no account needed. ## [Knights of Washington: Building Our Sales Funnel](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/knights-of-washington-building-our) _2025-07-30 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Hands down the best funnel we've built to date ## [Silver Empire: Our Second Novel, Part Two](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/silver-empire-our-second-novel-part-025) _2025-07-28 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ We can rebuild him. We have the technology. ## [Selling Books: You Don't Really Understand Your Book](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/selling-books-you-dont-really-understand) _2025-07-25 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Even though you wrote it. ## [Knights of Washington: Begin With Your Existing Audience](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/knights-of-washington-begin-with) _2025-07-23 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ Whatever audience you already have is where you need to start. ## [Silver Empire: Our Second Novel, Part One](https://rnewquist.substack.com/p/silver-empire-our-second-novel-part) _2025-07-21 · Russell Newquist · Selling Books with Russell Newquist_ AKA "Destroying My Ego" ## [The Magic of Polly Amnesia](https://lovebloodrhetoric.com/2025/02/26/polly-amnesia/) _2025-02-26 · Tony Pisculli · Love, Blood & Rhetoric_ Placeholder page for some extended playwright notes on The Magic of Polly Amnesia. I need to establish this URL for inclusion in the program, but I won t have time to flesh this out till later. Come back and read more after March 27!