by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigTwitterific 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 and [...]

Everybody has a method for organizing a book.  It’s important to stick with whatever works for you.  For me, the most important thing about organizing a book is that it’s got to be [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI’ve been hearing about the book Save the Cat by Blake Snyder for a long time.  Probably the last few years, actually. It was one of those things where [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Photo by AcrylicArtist Sometimes it takes other people to point out something special. My daughter recently had a friend over, and I was making the girls some snacks.  [...]

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 Nick Thacker @NickThacker If you’re like any other author (or person, for that matter), you probably hold a book with the words “New York Times Bestselling Author” on it in much higher [...]

Guest post by Anne Trager, @lefrenchbook, the founder of Le French Book and translator of The Paris Lawyer by Sylvie Granotier I recently founded Le French Book, an independent publisher dedicated to bringing [...]

by Kaitlin Nichols, @TheAtheleSeries I like genre blending. I’ll just come right out and say it. I mean, this isn’t anything against purity – a straight horror or a straight sword and sorcery [...]

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 Donna Galanti @DonnaGalanti In becoming an author and reader across genres, I’ve discovered a compelling novel is an emotional experience. If we fall in love with the characters in a book we [...]

by Man Martin, @ManMartin1 Farrish Carter, an old college friend – and by old, I mean old; we hadn’t seen each other in thirty years – stayed at our house for a couple [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I wanted to touch on a topic today that not everyone is going to relate to, but one which I think is important—self publishing backlists or restarting discontinued [...]

The editing’s finished, the cover looks amazing, and the launch is days away. Now it’s time to start work again … Death on a Longship, and its sequel, The Trowie Mound Murders, are [...]

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 Diane Lefer I think it was Muriel Rukeyser who said offer your work to publishers. A writer must never submit. Never never never submit. And oh! I know the righteous anger of [...]

by Kathryn Jones, @kakido Strange but true. You may find that writing your mystery novel is easier than marketing it afterwards. Besides that fact that there are many things to do–you just don’t [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was driving one of the interminable carpools that I drive on a daily basis during the school year. This was a middle school one and there’s a [...]

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 [...]