Below are my writing-related tweets from the last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links searchable—try it for searches on plotting, [...]

Is it just me, or did this week go by in a blur? In case you missed it (and I think a lot slipped by me this week), here are three different helps [...]

I’d been hearing good things about Paula McLain’s The Paris Wife, so I recently downloaded it to my Kindle and read the book. I really enjoyed it. I found, however, that I kept [...]

One of my favorite things about reading a book is being surprised. (Which is interesting, because in real life, I don’t like being surprised.) This surprise doesn’t have to be anything as dramatic [...]

This is my public service announcement for the next few months. :) Y’all—back up your work. Back up your writing and everything else that’s important to you on your computer. And…back up to [...]

It’s out! Progressive Dinner Deadly, a new Myrtle Clover mystery is now available on Kindle and Nook for $2.99 . This is a follow-up to Pretty is as Pretty Dies, published by Midnight [...]

Friday afternoon my husband and I had a nice lunch together, then he asked if I could run an errand for him (he was going back in to the office) and return a [...]

Below are my tweets from the last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and writer Mike Fleming, makes all these links searchable—try it for searches on plotting, characterization, [...]

I’ve noticed my buying habits, as a reader, are changing. Some of it is due to necessity. I’ve got several avid readers in my house and the library is, sadly, not able to [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about cover appeal. Wednesday, I went to our Borders’ going-out-of-business sale (which makes me sad) and picked up a book for my teenage son. I looked at [...]

You can usually tell when someone really loves to write. The writing seems animated, sparkling, sharp. When I volunteer at my daughter’s elementary school, there are some stories that even really young children [...]

I went to see the new Smurf movie with my daughter and her two friends yesterday. :) When I go to kids’ movies, I try to be a good sport. I channel my [...]

Saturday, I mentioned that it was difficult for writers to locate and sort through the wilderness of editors, designers, and formatters. I suggested, in fact, that there should be some ebook Sherpas to [...]

I wrote a post on Saturday that covered the different things I’d learned in the process of preparing a book for e-publishing. But although I mentioned the fact that many of my friends [...]

Below are my tweets from the last week. Hope you’ll enter this month’s WKB giveaway for a chance to win Donald Maass’ excellent Writing the Breakout Novel, from our friends at Writer’s Digest. [...]

Creating an ebook has been a learning experience. First off, for some reason I’m always surprised that non-writers aren’t really aware of the major changes going on in publishing. I guess I shouldn’t, [...]

A couple of weeks ago we visited family in Alabama. My father-in-law offered to take the kids and me to see the new Harry Potter movie. Of course they were delighted (it was [...]

Hi everyone! Today is my day on A Good Blog is Hard to Find. I’m posting about scenes that don’t work and my approach for diagnosing the problem and finding a cure. Hope [...]

Hope you’ll welcome my friend, Dorte Jakobsen, here today. Dorte has a brand-new release, The Cosy Knave, her first novel (I’m about 1/3 of the way through, and it’s a delight.) Welcome, Dorte! [...]

As someone who tries really hard to go with the flow, I’ve gone ahead and signed up on Google+ (Google’s foray into Facebook-style social media.) I’m Elizabeth S Craig there. I know…we’ve all [...]

Our family took a short vacation during my blogging break and tried to escape the blistering heat by visiting the mountains. We stayed in a town with a reputation for quirkiness. And quirkiness [...]

I’m back! I missed everybody! Hope everyone has had a good last week and a half. :) I’ll start back with a double-edition of Twitterific—below are all my tweets from the last two [...]

Hi everyone! This is the time of year when I take a short blogcation in order to catch up with family, host guests, etc. I’m also spending some time revising that book that [...]

Thanks for hosting me here at Mystery Writing is Murder, Elizabeth! My recently released Home Crafting Mystery, Wined and Died, is the fifth in the series. All of my contemporary cozies feature colonial [...]

I’ve been thinking a lot about productivity lately. This is probably because it’s summertime and my schedule is pretty much non-existent. I’m getting work done every day, but it’s not at the same [...]

Please join me in welcoming my friend Karen Walker to the blog. I love visiting Karen’s blog, Following the Whispers, because it’s a quiet oasis in my busy day. She helps me to [...]

Below are writing links that I’ve posted to Twitter in the past week. Hope you’ll enter this month’s WKB giveaway for a chance to win Donald Maass’ excellent Writing the Breakout Novel, from [...]

I mentioned last week that I was preparing two books to e-publish. I wrote one of the books three years ago. The other is a book I wrote five years ago. The book [...]

Today I’m at the Writers in the Storm blog (a great resource for writers, if you haven’t visited), talking a little about book middles. Middles can be tough—not only is it where our [...]

In 1939 sociologist Edwin Sutherland coined the term “white collar crime.” He wrote, “White collar crime is crime committed by a person of respectability and high social status in the course of his [...]