By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve come to the conclusion that production plans are important for any prolific writer, whether they’re self-published, traditionally published, or a hybrid writer. I was lucky enough with [...]
by Joe Benevento Anyone familiar with mystery knows the “femme fatale,” a character who can prove literally lethal to the man she seduces away from clear thinking. Bridget O’Shaughnessy in Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon [...]
by Aaron Sikes, @SikesAaron Many thanks to Elizabeth for hosting me today. My noir urban fantasy, Gods of Chicago, is currently on tour. Since I’m also an editor, Elizabeth asked me to share [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
by Barry Knister, @barryknister When I first decided to write a mystery series, the initial problem I faced didn’t have to do with writing. It had to do with the crime business. I’m [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It must have been 2011 when I was first asked to write an outline of a book for an editor. At that point I’d written four or five [...]
by C. S. Lakin, @CSLakin I ask a lot of questions in my line of work as a professional manuscript critiquer and copyeditor. Sure, I also give a lot of suggestions and fix [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last year, I received a contract extension for my Southern Quilting mysteries—Penguin wanted two more books. So I knew that the series would last through 2015 and then [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Mystery writers that I’ve met tend to fall into a couple of different groups—writers who have picked their killer before they start writing their story (or early in [...]
by L. Diane Wolfe, @SpunkonaStick Self-publishing has become a very attractive venture for writers these days. It’s now much easier to send a book out into the world without the help of a [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Amazon has been in the news recently because of growing pains (shipping issues regarding timely delivery) and other problems it’s experiencing…most notably their possible plans to spike the [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Tax time is making me a bit reflective this year. Maybe I didn’t have the time to reflect on Dec. 31st/Jan. 1 since I had a January 1 [...]
by Julie Musil, @JulieMusil My hubby and I are die-hard do-it-yourselfers. The home we live in now sits on what used to be nothing but acres of wide open dirt and scrub oak. [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had my appointment with my CPA on Wednesday. The appointment was in the middle of the Southern snowstorm aftermath, actually—there’s nothing like adding to the misery of [...]
by Kathy Owen, @kbowenwriter Elizabeth invited me to share with you one of my favorite classic detective novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. I love talking about the classics [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I received an email last week from a writer who is feeling a little overwhelmed by the revision process and asked if I’d written any posts that helped [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
by Delia Brendan, @deliabrendan Years ago, I went to a plotting workshop. The workshop leader described a process involving white poster board and multi-colored sticky notes. She described how each sticky note color corresponded [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There’s an interesting phenomenon when you comb through your RSS reader—even if you have a large number of blogs that you’re following. Sometimes it’s as if everyone got [...]
by Bridget McNulty , @nownovel No matter how badly you want to write, you may find yourself feeling unmotivated. However, by figuring out why you are unmotivated, you can overcome that inertia and get [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig These days, it seems as though everyone is talking about writing faster. And there’s definitely a link between the number of books we have available for sale and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I’m guest-posting at the Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog with seven best practices for self-publishing success. The Insecure Writer’s Support Group was founded by writer Alex J. [...]
by Becca Puglisi, @BeccaPuglisi Since Angela Ackerman and I wrote our last book, The Positive Trait Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Character Attributes, I’ve been thinking a lot about personality traits and how [...]
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 topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I used to be a big fan of writing each book in my different series as a standalone. I liked the fact that readers could pick up any [...]
By Dina Santorelli, @DinaSantorelli So you’ve won an award for your book. Very cool. You should be congratulated not just for winning, but for having the gumption to enter that competition in the [...]
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