My writing group has a game that we like to play: we all write down a location and three professions, then put them in a hat (well, two...

[Full disclosure – that title was written to be clickbait. It's more like: 3 Common Errors That Slow Down Editors, but that didn't have...

[For anyone who's not an absolute theatre nerd, this tile is a reference to a song in the TV series Smash, Season 2 – which I liked a lot...

Last month I talked about barrelling through difficult parts of writing, even though you know you'll need to change it later, in order to...

If you don't know what this phrase means, it's something commonly said by filmmakers who know that there's something not quite right with...

February was a bit rough. I received 4 rejections in one month, which is a lot considering I only submitted 4 stories so far this year....

Sometimes I get caught up in the minutiae… To be fair, one of my strengths as an editor is that I’m good at finding continuity errors, so...

Engen Books is proud and honored to announce the return of bestselling, award-winning author Ali House to 2021's Mythology from the Rock!

Back in university, I wrote a lot of essays the night before they were due. I'd get my research sorted out beforehand, but the actual...

This year we're aiming higher, with 21 projects announcing today, and more on the way we can't even tell you about yet. It's going to be fun

Normally December is a time when people look back fondly on the things they did during the past 12 months, but this year has been...

Coming in 2021, we have Ali House's lit fiction horror novel, Variety Show. House's third novel follows Wendy, a young actor navigating...

This is the instruction the title box gives me when I start a new post, but it also got me thinking about story titles. In my experience,...

One odd thing about me is that I love acting, but I hate public speaking. Put me in a costume, give me a character to be and someone...

Confession Time: Not so long ago, I used to be SUPER pedantic about grammar and spelling in books. If I found a word that wasn't spelled...

There are times when I find it difficult to write. Sometimes I'll sit in front of the computer with the best of intentions, but the words...

This line is usually used as a joke to indicate that an actor is high-maintenance, but motivation is a very important factor for actors...