Thanks to John for guest posting today with some helpful tips for tweaking our stories. I’m hanging out with Teresa today, over at the Journaling Woman’s blog. Hope you’ll pop over to say [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Y’all probably won’t see me visiting online a lot this week. I’ve got a book to turn in on Friday (well, the deadline is July 1—to me, that [...]

by Emily Wenstrom, @EmilyWenstrom Putting the Cart Before the Horse Why I’m Building a Platform without a Completed Manuscript Nonfiction writers are constantly told how critical their platforms are to landing a publisher. [...]

By Mar Preston, @YesMarPreston My Dave Mason police procedural series is about the Santa Monica Police Department and the city itself, a tourist destination with a colorful background, present, and future. I love [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Jerry Last As we try to create the imaginary worlds of our books, to be believable we have to rely on reality for inspiration. I use the places I’ve lived in and [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Thursday, my daughter reminded me that she has a particular book assigned to read for a summer reading project for school. My children now usually read books on [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good past week and are enjoying the start of your summer. I’ve had sort of a double-whammy (triple whammy?) recently. During [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

Just a quick note to let y’all know that I’ll be off the grid until my Twitterific post runs on Sunday. I’ve got some family events (all fun stuff) and a deadline I’m [...]

by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, @BryanThomasS One of the better lessons I learned about storytelling came from my time in film school at California State University, Fullerton, during lessons on story structure and plotting. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Leslie Budewitz As the author of a book that helps writers get the details about the legal world right, I’m sometimes asked why getting it right matters. “It’s fiction,” writers say. “Why [...]

Today, I’m at a couple of different places (no, not an official blog tour, but I’ve got a few guest spots coming up that coincided with my release.) First I’ll be on P.W. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today is the launch for the first book in a new series—Quilt or Innocence in the Southern Quilting mysteries. How often will I track its sales numbers? Rarely. [...]

by Jodie Renner, freelance editor, @JodieRennerEd Style Blunders in Fiction No, I’m not talking about the fashion police coming after you. I’m talking about those little errors and bad habits that creep into [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig. I’m currently reading a mystery (no surprise there) that I’m really enjoying:  Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet. One thing I love as a mystery reader [...]