by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve talked to writers before who just don’t get why I write small town settings. “But it really limits what you can do!” and “Does anything really ever [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always been somewhat allergic to the word outline. I don’t outline books unless editors ask me to. But that doesn’t mean that I wander through a book [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I enjoyed my Christmas break. :) Although I wasn’t blogging last week, I was tweeting…and here are the writing links I tweeted [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

Hope you’ll pop over and join me today at paranormal and fantasy writer Lisa Gail Green’s blog, Paranormal Point of View. I’m talking a little about creating plot twists and laying clues in [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Keeping up with publishing news in, let’s say, 2000 wasn’t particularly interesting. I know I wasn’t paying attention to it. I wonder how many people were. But today, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was speaking to a lady the other day who is an aspiring author. She has been researching ways of improving her writing, but told me that everything [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

Thanks to Ed Casas for guest posting today and covering a topic I know very little about! Thanks to Ed for developing a formula for finding it out. BY EDUARDO R CASAS Below [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was running errands recently and ran into a mom I haven’t seen for a while. “Have you had any books come out lately?” she asked. I’ve had [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had Bad Parenting Moment #1,000,001 (at least) on Sunday when I was at the theater with my ten year old daughter. She’s recently become completely obsessed with [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s getting close to the end of the year again…and I really don’t know where the year went. One thing that I’m usually good at is setting goals [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Jane Friedman had a great post on Writer Unboxed on Wednesday.  She said that copywriting is the number one overlooked skill for authors. In her post, Jane covers [...]