By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The past few days haven’t been terrific and the fault for this lies squarely with me. So…I dropped my phone in water.  Apparently, [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My daughter has been horseback riding on the weekends for years now. I love that she loves it, I love the way she excels at it.  I love [...]

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 A few years ago, I got an email from a middle school student.  What was the theme of my book? At first I was just a little startled [...]

By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig By Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig Tomorrow, November 14, I’m on a panel for the Get Read online conference—a conference that’s all about helping writers learn more about effective [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s been a very long time since I’ve sold anything at 99 cents.  I’d read some blog posts that advised against it.  I’d heard readers say that it [...]

 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 [...]

Guest Post by Jack Smith At some point in drafting a novel, you will probably see the need to add more actions or events to complete the plot.  You know the story isn’t [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A couple of months ago, I read an interesting post on social reading: Is Social Reading the End of an Intimacy?  Porter Anderson discussed the topic on Jane [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In many ways, I’m the biggest lurker out there.  I do try to comment on friends’ blogs, but for the vast majority of the blogs I visit 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 [...]

 Translator Julie Rose has translated some of France’s most highly prized writers, both classical and contemporary and is best known for her critically acclaimed translation of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Misérables. Rose has [...]

 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 [...]