My first professional short story sale I announced a few months ago is now PUBLISHED, and my story is live and out there in the big, wide...

Today is book release day for Evernigh by M.J. Padgett! I beta-read this book prior to its release, and it's such a fantastic,...

Hello, everyone, and welcome to my very first YA Clean Reads Book Review post! I'm starting this project as a way to help parents find...

Welcome to another one of my random late-night entertainments: making satirical magazine covers based on book tropes!

Learn to make your fiction writing more powerful!

Find clean/sweet romance serials on Kindle Vella with the "Just Kisses" tag!

"Overly Serious Twilight Essay" #1 -- Ravioli with a Side of Existentialism: The Symbolic Meaning of Bella's Mushroom Ravioli in Twilight

Kindle Vella launched a few days ago, and I've been testing out the platform, checking out stories, and closely watching the forums and...

...And so is my brand new story! ​ I'm thrilled to announce the first publicly-released portion of the Leyward Stones universe: my brand...

There's a new readership platform launching... it's coming very, very soon... and I'm going to be a part of it! So, what is it? I explain...

New Patreon tiers...with even more perks!

A new Trope Talk video is up! This month we're chatting about the absent or clueless parent trope found in many young adult books. What...

Grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and join us as we chat book tropes! I just launched a fun, new thing on YouTube: Trope Talk with MJ and...

Note: This is the first post in my new "Coffee and Cats...and Other Life Things" category here on my blog... a new category for blog...

I am VERY excited to announce that I will have a short story appearing in a future issue of DreamForge Anvil later this year! (The...

Hi, everyone! Whether you're a fellow writer, an avid reader, or both, I've got something fun to share tonight! First off, I want to...

A 250-word narrated mini-story... with video!

My latest Patreon post, written just now! (Free to read!) https://www.patreon.com/posts/46983275