by Rebecca Yount As a child I had a love affair with book covers. Wesley Dennis’s artwork that graced Marguerite Henry’s stories drew me in like a magnet attracts metal. So, too, Arthur [...]

by Paul Anthony Shortt, @PAShortt by Paul Anthony Shortt, @PAShortt While I’m not a mystery writer, I have enjoyed including mystery elements in Locked Within Silent Oath. Nathan Shepherd started off his journey [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It used to be, and still mainly is, in traditional publishing, that you wanted a really strong book release.  My publishers like to see good pre-orders and a [...]

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 [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I know that my editors specifically wanted a Southern writer for the two series I’m writing for Penguin. They do get the South when they hire me on.  [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Traditional publishing is a funny thing.  It’s a hurry up-and-wait type of business.  Sometimes (quite frequently, actually), everything moves at glacial speed.  But sometimes, things happen before you’re [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was going through my blog reader recently and came across an interesting post from writer Jeff Cohen: “Stuff Not to Do” on the Hey, There’s a Dead [...]

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 When I speak to book clubs and other groups of readers, I’m frequently asked if my characters are like me. And they’re really not—the books would be boring [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I first self-published a couple of years ago, it really never occurred to me to put out print copies of the books.  I felt print was on [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Back in March, I wrote a post weighing in on the self-publishing vs. traditional publishing choice.  At the time, I was stunned by a report from a Digital [...]

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 thought I’d give an update on both the audiobook platform that I started doing this spring and the promo efforts that I’ve made for the past few [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m new to outlining and sometimes there’s an element that’s missing when I draft outlines—complexity. I think that’s because I usually add more layers to my books after [...]

by Jodie Renner, editor, author, speaker What exactly is “voice” in fiction? An engaging story “voice” captures us from the first sentence and beckons us into the story world. Literary agents and acquiring [...]

 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 recently had someone email me asking how he could most effectively promote if he had no time at all to promote. I know there have got to [...]

Guest Post by Jack Smith You can handle novel revision in many different ways—probably too numerous to mention.  One method: You can rework pages one at a time, trying to get everything right [...]