@AuthorGuy — Authorguy’s Blog What a difference a Date makes. When I first started my latest novel (the latest one to be released, not my WIP) I was standing in a book store, [...]

Hi everyone!  Today I’m over at the book blog, Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book.  I’ve got a guest post explaining why it’s dangerous to unleash writers on an unsuspecting public. :) [...]

First of all, thanks to Mason Canyon at the Thoughts in Progress blog for her review of my recent release, Hickory Smoked Homicide.  I appreciate it, Mason! I was talking to another writer [...]

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Just a quick post today to serve as a heads-up to my recent crop of new blog and Twitter followers  (and many thanks for the follow) that there are a couple of resources [...]

Hi y’all.  Today I’m over at Kristin Centorcelli’s My Bookish Ways book blog for a quick interview. It’s also my day to blog at A Good Blog is Hard to Find. Do you [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Hi everyone! Today, a day after the launch of Hickory Smoked Homicide, I’m at Joan Swan’s blog . I’m talking a little about where characters come from and [...]

I’m over at Jenny Hansen’s More Cowbell blog today, talking a little about good and bad repetition in our books. Hope you’ll pop by and join me. :) Today is my release day [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig First up, hope you’ll run by to visit me (actually, visit my character, Lulu) today at Dru’s Book Musings. My third Memphis Barbeque mystery, Hickory Smoked Homicide, releases [...]

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I was really enjoying Masterpiece Mystery Sunday night. That’s because the episode of Case Histories featured a writer with a big role. And the screenwriters for the episode had clearly been having fun—writing [...]

by Victoria Mixon @VictoriaMixon I’m reading an Ellery Queen today, after a whole pile of other pulp mysteries, and I’ve also started re-reading Hillary Waugh’s Guide to Mystery & Mystery Writing. Waugh was [...]

by Porter Anderson, @Porter_Anderson Appointment With Death is Agatha Christie’s travelogue-gone-wrong, set in the “rose red city of Petra.” And some years ago, when I directed Christie’s 1945 stage adaptation of it, I [...]

Hope y’all can join me today at Victoria Mixon’s blog. Victoria interviewed me on the subject of mysteries—which writers I’ve found inspiring, what techniques I’d love to try, my favorite mystery writing resources, [...]

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Lately, I’ve been getting a lot of really murky emails that I just can’t make heads or tails of (none of them from writers). The emails ramble. Then, when I finally reach the [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig I was recently working on revisions when I realized I wasn’t 100% happy with a particular scene. I thought the beginning was ‘okay.’ But the more I looked [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig I’m definitely a creature of habit. I have a morning routine for getting the kids off to school, and if I mess up one part of it, there’s [...]

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 searchable. Sign up for the free [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig I was reading a great psychological thriller on Thursday afternoon. It was broad daylight, 1:30 p.m., the cats were snoozing in a sunbeam, the dog was snoring, and [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig @elizabethscraig I’ve had a crazy last week. That’s because, in addition to the regular craziness, I had a car kick the bucket on me. My husband, fortunately, jumped into [...]

Hope you’ll join me in welcoming Kathleen Ernst today. She’s got some excellent tips for working with an editor. Kathleen is the author of the Chloe Ellefson/Historic Sites mysteries among other books. Getting [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig/ @elizabethscraig At some point when we’re writing our book, there comes a happy time when our characters become real. It’s like Pinocchio turning into a real boy. Of course, [...]

My son is in marching band, so I found myself at the homecoming game last week as snack mom. :) What’s more, since I was snack mom and had to stay for the [...]

I know your pain. Everyone’s telling you you’ve got to write that novel and stop putting it off. Everyone’s telling you that you’ve got to stop wasting your time watching Desperate Housewives already [...]

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As someone who’s currently on a couple of group blogs (and who has been a regular contributor on as many as five), I found a recent post by author/social media guru Kristen Lamb [...]

You wrote your first book, and it’s on Kindle, Smashwords, Nook and wherever else ebooks are sold. You’re proud of it, your family members pretend that they’re proud of you, and your wife [...]

I usually don’t get stuck with book beginnings (endings are more of a problem for me), because I have a similar approach each time. This may not give me an award for originality, [...]

November 1st through 30th is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. If you’re not familiar with it, the goal of NaNoWriMo is to write a novel in a month. You can log your [...]