In this crowded field of publishing, originality is king.

If theme is the soul of a story, then the characters are its beating heart.

Themes elevate a good book to a great read.

Taken to the highest form, description should be both a window to the world and a mirror reflection the heart and soul of the point-of-view character.

From the moment we are born, we are swaddled in stories.

Stories pervade our lives. This inundation of content makes us all export story listeners, or expert story readers, but only a few of us dare to become expert story tellers. We dare to add our tales to the collective memory of mankind that stretches back to early cave paintings.

Themes are the very souls of stories.