By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Friday I spoke to a book club in my hometown of Anderson, South Carolina.  It was a great group and a very well-established one—it had been founded in [...]

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 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone.  Hope you all have a great weekend.  I’ve got a guest post today at the We Wanted to be Writers blog–they have an interesting feature called [...]

by Stephen McCutchan, @stevemccutchan A Good Mystery A good mystery helps restore order and makes sense out of something that is unexplainable in our society. People do not like to live in a [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Although I don’t do a ton of interviews, I probably do a live or recorded interview every few months.  I especially like the recorded ones because I figure [...]

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 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig On Monday’s post, I received a comment from Colleen…she was interested in hearing more about balancing or approaching life as a hybrid writer—someone who is both traditionally published [...]

Guest Post by James Mullen I’ve started to sketch out the plot for my second book.  The book is a police procedural based in Boston, and although I visit the area frequently, I [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig As I mentioned last week, I recently turned in a teaser chapter and an outline to one of my Penguin editors.  This particular editor likes to see an [...]

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 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I dislike writing setting and description, but I used to absolutely despise it.  I’ve got plenty of now-published manuscripts in my Word archives with helpful editorial direction on [...]

 Guest Post by Deborah Sharp First, I must recognize Mystery Writing is Murder as the fantastic resource it is for me, and for countless others. Much thanks to Elizabeth for her fantastic blog, [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last December I was at a Christmas drop-in and was hanging out near the back of the room…my favorite haunt at social events.  This spot is even better [...]

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 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I wanted to share some sites that I’ve found really helpful lately.  I’m always looking for ways to save time using apps and, so frequently, I seem to [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had a deadline Sunday that I met just in the nick of time. :)  It was a deadline for a teaser chapter—the first chapter in my current [...]

Guest Post by Jack Smith Dialogue Tags What about “he said”/”she said”—do you need them?  Or perhaps the character’s name instead of the pronoun?  How much of either is needed?  How much is [...]

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 23,000 free articles on writing related [...]