by Vivian Conroy, @VivWrites When the editor called me to offer me a 3-book deal for my Lady Alkmene Callender 1920s’ mysteries, she told me that after reading a sentence or two she already [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s Halloween, the perfect time to mull over fear. I read a lot of really scary stuff online. None of it has to do with monsters, either. There [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Parenting and writing. It can be a challenging combination … or can it? A lot depends on the child/teen in question, the parent’s schedule and non-child stressors, and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Are your books available to an international audience? I’ve found that my international sales have picked up after I implemented a few tweaks. First off, do you have [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Patrick Kelly, @pkfiction For two and a half years I slaved over my first novel, arranged and rearranged the plot, constructed and deconstructed the characters, and polished each sentence twice. Then [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I always like studying reader reviews of my recent releases to see what readers are saying about my books. Okay…correction. :) I always study my reader reviews, I don’t always [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to feel like the sole, income-focused writer in any group I was in. I was the one on any panel hesitantly bringing up ways that writers could make [...]
by Nina Amir, @NinaAmir Publishing is all business. You have to deal with business plans or proposals, contracts, negotiations, promotion, platform, a publishing company—someone else’s or your own, marketability, taxes, and, of course, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Family and friends will sometimes lightly tell me they’re sure that I’m going to pen a bestseller. I respond, just as lightly, that I don’t write those types [...]
by Roland Yeomans, @rxena77 Isn’t Elizabeth brave and gracious to let me borrow her blog for the day? Give her a hand by commenting at the end of this post, will you? “I [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In the past month, I’ve had three writers reach out to me. They were all writing mysteries for the first time. They asked me about outlining with arcs [...]
by Mike Martin, @mike54martin In some ways it’s easy to write a series. You already have a frame in which to sketch your story. Usually, that means you have a general location or [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s a lot to think about and remember for so many different aspects of book production and book release. I recently shared my checklist for releasing a book. [...]
By Janice Hardy, @Janice_Hardy Foreshadowing might seem like a technique that applies mostly to mystery writers, but all stories rely on the classic “what might happen next?” question. Even in a romance, there [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Whenever I talk to anyone about my writing, the question usually comes up: would I like to try writing anything other than mystery? Then I explain that I [...]
by David H. Safford, @DavidHSafford Few elements of our craft vex us more than exposition. Perhaps this is because the rules aren’t written in stone. To you, the writer, it feels necessary to share [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
By Joanna Campbell Slan, @joannaslan Over the years I’ve entered and judged a variety of contests. Since we’ve recently opened our call for entries to the 2016 FREDDIE AWARD for WRITING EXCELLENCE (FAWE) [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Wednesday I drove to Flat Rock, North Carolina, to speak with a book club. It was a great event and the group asked some very interesting questions. One [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Releases are always a lot more work than I think they are. That’s because of all the little things I have to do to prepare. It’s a lot. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Usually I think of summer as a lazier time when I can leisurely get peripheral writing-related chores completed. I’d put all kinds of things on my calendar to do this [...]
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