First, I was going to put a funny marriage-based picture on here.  I found that the majority of what I found revolved around men always being wrong, women always shopping, and men always being idiots.  So, I’m not going to bother with a picture.

It was requested that I write about my wife or get her to do a guest blog.  Personally, I find it uncomfortable to discuss the intricacies of my marriage.  So, I’m going to do a humorous list of advice for spouses of authors.  This has been done by other authors such as Robert Davis who wrote Rakasha.

1. DO give your author the time to write.  They get testy if you block them from their favorite activity.
2. DON’T start talking to your author about the price of milk when they’re writing.  They don’t care at that time.
3. DO offer to read their finished work and give your opinion.
4. DON’T offer to read their finished work and rewrite what they did.  Unless you’re an editor this is not the reason you’re opinion was looked for.
5. DO show some understanding that your author doesn’t really take weekends off.  If the author is a stay-at-home then the weekend is the only time they have help with any kids, pets, or tasks.
6. DON’T make it a habit of rushing out of the house Saturday morning while your author is in the bathroom.  You can get away with this once or twice, but more than that and you might find that the character based on you has a run of bad luck.
7. DO help designated some space in the house for your author.  A desk or a corner to call their own does wonders.
8. DON’T clear space for your author and slowly encroach on their territory.  That’s just mean and you might find yourself ‘accidentally’ kicked out of bed every night.
9. DO tell people your spouse is an author.
10. DON’T tell people your spouse is trying to be an author.
11. DO pay attention to where your author puts notebooks, pens, pencils, and other supplies.
12. DON’T use up their last pencil, steal a piece of paper from their notebooks, or break their lucky stapler the one time they let you use it.
13. DO show interest in how their published books are doing.
14. DON’T constantly ask how their books are doing then nag them for spending so much time checking their stats.

Legends of Windemere: Allure of the Gypsies is now available for the Amazon Kindle!