by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI’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 four [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigI 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 there [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraigTwitterific 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 and [...]
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, @elizabethscraigI’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 where [...]
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 [...]
by Diane Lefer I think it was Muriel Rukeyser who said offer your work to publishers. A writer must never submit. Never never never submit. And oh! I know the righteous anger of [...]
by Kathryn Jones, @kakido Strange but true. You may find that writing your mystery novel is easier than marketing it afterwards. Besides that fact that there are many things to do–you just don’t [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was driving one of the interminable carpools that I drive on a daily basis during the school year. This was a middle school one and there’s a [...]
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 John Yeoman, @Yeomanis How do you tell a mother her baby is ugly? You don’t. You can’t. Agents can’t, either. We drop off our favourite child at their office, with love in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The other mothers at the stables assured me that the day would come (probably sooner than later) when my daughter was going to come flying off her horse. [...]
by Douglas Corleone, @douglascorleone One of the toughest parts of being a new novelist is requesting blurbs from established authors. You’re not only asking an author to take eight to ten hours out [...]
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 [...]
I’ll be back on Sunday with Twitterific, but will be on break until then. I’m suddenly the aunt of twins. :) [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It happens to all of us. If life hasn’t hijacked your writing schedule, then you’ve either been very lucky or else you haven’t been writing for very long. [...]
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 Today I’m over at Laura Howard’s Finding Bliss blog. I’m going to be talking about passive voice—a tricky subject and one that’s frequently misunderstood by writers. Hope you’ll [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the hazards of reading so many blogs is that I find out about a lot of fantastic-sounding books. I have a lot of to-be-read books on [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A friend of mine has a party each summer. Each summer she tells me, “Now, Elizabeth. I know you don’t like parties, but I’m counting on you to [...]
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