by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Y’all probably won’t see me visiting online a lot this week. I’ve got a book to turn in on Friday (well, the deadline is July 1—to me, that [...]

by Emily Wenstrom, @EmilyWenstrom Putting the Cart Before the Horse Why I’m Building a Platform without a Completed Manuscript Nonfiction writers are constantly told how critical their platforms are to landing a publisher. [...]

By Mar Preston, @YesMarPreston My Dave Mason police procedural series is about the Santa Monica Police Department and the city itself, a tourist destination with a colorful background, present, and future. I love [...]

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 Jerry Last As we try to create the imaginary worlds of our books, to be believable we have to rely on reality for inspiration. I use the places I’ve lived in and [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Thursday, my daughter reminded me that she has a particular book assigned to read for a summer reading project for school. My children now usually read books on [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone! Hope you all had a good past week and are enjoying the start of your summer. I’ve had sort of a double-whammy (triple whammy?) recently. During [...]

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 [...]

Just a quick note to let y’all know that I’ll be off the grid until my Twitterific post runs on Sunday. I’ve got some family events (all fun stuff) and a deadline I’m [...]

by Bryan Thomas Schmidt, @BryanThomasS One of the better lessons I learned about storytelling came from my time in film school at California State University, Fullerton, during lessons on story structure and plotting. [...]

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 Leslie Budewitz As the author of a book that helps writers get the details about the legal world right, I’m sometimes asked why getting it right matters. “It’s fiction,” writers say. “Why [...]

Today, I’m at a couple of different places (no, not an official blog tour, but I’ve got a few guest spots coming up that coincided with my release.) First I’ll be on P.W. [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today is the launch for the first book in a new series—Quilt or Innocence in the Southern Quilting mysteries. How often will I track its sales numbers? Rarely. [...]

by Jodie Renner, freelance editor, @JodieRennerEd Style Blunders in Fiction No, I’m not talking about the fashion police coming after you. I’m talking about those little errors and bad habits that creep into [...]

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’m currently reading a mystery (no surprise there) that I’m really enjoying:  Death of a Cozy Writer by G.M. Malliet. One thing I love as a mystery reader [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was interviewed recently and one of the questions I was asked was what type of preparation or training I’d received to become a novelist. I think the [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Blogger is being obnoxious and frequently putting genuine comments into my blog’s spam folder.  I’ve rescued a few of them and have noticed that the common thread seems [...]

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 There was an article in the New York Times recently, entitled Writer’s Cramp: In the e-Reader era, a Book a Year is Slacking. Obviously, this is a provocative [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was working away on the fourth Memphis book yesterday, writing an important scene for the book. It’s a scene where a suspect gives important information to my [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d just finished my daily goal for my fourth Memphis book on Thursday when I had a sudden uneasy feeling about the third quilting mystery. When was 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 Cozy mysteries, also known as traditional mysteries, are lots of fun to write.  But there are some challenges authors will face while writing them. Hope you’ll join me [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re like me, you have a love/hate relationship with social media. I love being connected with other writers and resources—but I hate the way it sucks up [...]

by Sandra Gardner Since character and story are major elements in a novel, your primary concern as a novelist is to figure out who your characters are, what their motivations are, and where [...]

Today, many writers are participating in a special event, created by Becca and Angela at the Bookshelf Muse. We’re all focusing on writers who make a difference in the writing community–either on 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 Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m thankful for the rise in dystopian fiction (my son’s favorite genre and one that was difficult to find before the Hunger Games gained prominence) and e-readers. Believe [...]