by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I recently got my copyedited manuscript back for the first Southern quilting mystery, which is releasing in June. I was pleased with the lack of mark-ups on the [...]

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable. Sign up [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve gotten a good number of questions lately via email and Twitter about my platform on Twitter. I came up with a Twitter policy last year (which sounds [...]

by Lois Winston, @anasleuth Upstairs, the front door slammed with enough force to register a five on the Richter scale. That’s the first line of Death By Killer Mop Doll, the second book [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I don’t watch much television, but I’ve always been interested in bios and documentaries on writers, musicians, and visual and performance artists. So I was watching, with interest, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For the last few weeks, I’ve been following a thread of posts with interest. Roni Loren had a post on January 2, referencing a Dear Author post entitled [...]

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable. Sign up [...]

by p.m. terrell, @BookEmNC I’ve wondered lately why I’ve had no time to blog. Then the reason occurred to me: I’m organizing a Writer’s Conference and Book Fair. The Book ‘Em conference scheduled [...]

For a while now, I’ve been interested in voice recognition software. I recently became more interested, when I started having carpal tunnel syndrome symptoms appear. My husband, a computer engineer, is also dealing [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes I think I just like to be contrary. I’m not at all fond of resolutions. When other people are making resolutions, I tend to spring clean. And [...]

Happy New Year! Hope everyone has a wonderful 2012 (with lots of writing in it!) Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve talked to writers before who just don’t get why I write small town settings. “But it really limits what you can do!” and “Does anything really ever [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve always been somewhat allergic to the word outline. I don’t outline books unless editors ask me to. But that doesn’t mean that I wander through a book [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I enjoyed my Christmas break. :) Although I wasn’t blogging last week, I was tweeting…and here are the writing links I tweeted [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

Hope you’ll pop over and join me today at paranormal and fantasy writer Lisa Gail Green’s blog, Paranormal Point of View. I’m talking a little about creating plot twists and laying clues in [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Keeping up with publishing news in, let’s say, 2000 wasn’t particularly interesting. I know I wasn’t paying attention to it. I wonder how many people were. But today, [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was speaking to a lady the other day who is an aspiring author. She has been researching ways of improving her writing, but told me that everything [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

Thanks to Ed Casas for guest posting today and covering a topic I know very little about! Thanks to Ed for developing a formula for finding it out. BY EDUARDO R CASAS Below [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was running errands recently and ran into a mom I haven’t seen for a while. “Have you had any books come out lately?” she asked. I’ve had [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I had Bad Parenting Moment #1,000,001 (at least) on Sunday when I was at the theater with my ten year old daughter. She’s recently become completely obsessed with [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s getting close to the end of the year again…and I really don’t know where the year went. One thing that I’m usually good at is setting goals [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Jane Friedman had a great post on Writer Unboxed on Wednesday.  She said that copywriting is the number one overlooked skill for authors. In her post, Jane covers [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig My husband is a regular viewer and fan of The Walking Dead series on AMC. It’s not the kind of thing I usually watch, but I’ve caught the [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig It’s funny that writing promo usually equals signings in the minds of non-writers. Frequently, I’ll have an acquaintance or friend ask me if I’m planning to have a [...]

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links (now over 12,000) searchable. Sign up [...]

If you’re a traditional/cozy writer or reader, I hope you’ll join me over at Margot Kinberg’s Confessions of a Mystery Novelist.  I’m posting some ideas on striking a balance between the needs of [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends!  I’m thankful for all of you! If you’re looking for something to read, I’m over at the Writers Read blog, talking about one of the last books [...]