by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This post is especially for all the newer or more uncertain writers out there.  The ones who are frozen while working on their manuscript because they’ve read so [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Backstory can be a real problem for writers…if readers find it boring. Many readers won’t put their finger on exactly what it was that made the story boring, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig   Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 20,000 free articles on writing [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the reasons that I went on break for a couple of weeks was that I was on vacation in Kenya. :) It was a wonderful vacation.  [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I do like to keep track of both where I am in a story and how much I’m able to accomplish each day.  That’s mainly because I deal [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone has had a good last couple of weeks…I did.  I even managed to have an adventure…more on that on Friday. From time to time I get [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig  Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 20,000 [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone is having a good summer so far.   I’m going to take a couple of weeks off, but will  return to the blog on Sunday, July 21 [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 20,000 free articles on writing related [...]

Title: Why Spy? The appeal of spies in fiction by Jordan McCollum Maybe it’s just a guilty pleasure. Maybe it’s an obsession. Maybe it’s simple wish-fulfillment fantasy. But with the popularity of everything [...]

by Kay Kendall, @Kaylee_Kendall Everyone knows the publishing world is in upheaval and it’s a dog-eat-dog world as far as promoting books is concerned. At first the various ways to connect through social [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Not every editor sends editorial letters along with requests for edits, but my editor for the quilting mysteries does—and I love them.    The reason she’s one of my [...]