By Joanne Sydney Lessner, @joannelessner Earlier this month, SerialSleuths, Volume 1: Haunted hit the Kindle shelves. The brainchild of Jen Blood, author of the Erin Solomon mysteries, this short story collection features five [...]

By Peggy Williams & Mary Joy Johnson Ever want to kill your partner? Life partner? Business partner? Bridge partner?  Instead of wanting to kill each other, the writing partnership M. J. Williams regularly [...]

Passion, lucidity and tenacity: keys to being a writer   Anne Trager, founder of Le French Books, talks with international bestselling author Frédérique Molay   Imagine writing a book in your spare hours, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I read writing rules posts, they usually remind me of the old grammar rules.  You know, like: i before e, except after c…but there are exceptions.   [...]

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 The last few years, I’ve kept a very strict writing schedule—mostly because of the deadlines that I had from the two imprints I was working for, Penguin NAL/Obsidian [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every time I read a great post on cliffhangers, I feel a little sorry that I don’t write too many of them.  It can make for a thrilling [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The other night, I watched a mystery on television.  The actors were good, the puzzle itself was good,  and the setting—a boarding school— was interesting. The problem that [...]

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’d been wanting to read something a little different, so I glanced through my TBR (to be read) list.  Keith Richards’ Life was on there, and I figured [...]

By Anne Trager, the founder of Le French Book, @LeFrenchBook I recently translated a fun, classic whodunit from French into English for Le French Book. It’s called Treachery in Bordeaux and was written [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig  MorgueFile: xenia I received an email a week ago from one of my blog readers.  She said that she repeatedly heard the advice that writers needed to [...]

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 My editor emailed me last week to see if she could get the first chapter for the next book in the series to include as a teaser for [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m always interested in seeing what my children bring home as English homework. My daughter had an assignment a couple of weeks ago where she had to identify [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read in the Charlotte Observer recently that there was a new radio station in town…an oldies station.  I was glad to hear the news—I remember thinking that [...]

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 [...]

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, @elizabethscraig I’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 [...]

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 [...]