by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Back at the start of the Memphis Barbeque and the Southern Quilting mysteries, I didn’t worry at all about planning the length of the series. That’s because I knew [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I have mixed feelings about group giveaways that are geared to grow newsletter subscribers. I’ve had success in the past with the (very few) times that I’ve participated [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I like reading many different kinds of books. Everything from biographies to literary fiction and classic literature interests me. But for writing, I’ve been sticking with cozy mysteries. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Being a writer can involve a lot of clutter. And I don’t even print things out. I’ve trained myself by this time to work as well on the [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I lurk in a lot of Facebook groups and while there are always writers who are pumped up about writing and promoting (yes, really, there are those writers!) [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was looking for a movie to watch and stumbled across “Paterson” on Amazon Prime Video (free to Prime customers). The description of the movie reads: Every day, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every so often, I run a variation of the same post. It’s a public service announcement to back up your work. I have heard so many horror stories [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I was reading through my Feedly RSS feeds (I work and curate links about a month behind in the feed reader) and I came across a post by [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig There are times when I’m completely prepared to admit that I’m a writer. These are usually social situations or parent meetings where small-talk entails being asked what one [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read a lot of posts that assume that writers have unlimited funds for book production. But many writers who self-publish books are having to fit the process [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Years ago I was stumped when I received an email from a middle school student. He was reading one of my books for a school assignment (this, in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Anyone familiar with this blog knows that I’m not a fan of old-fashioned promoting. I think I’ve sold a lot more books by using better book metadata and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Probably one of the things I’m emailed the most about by other writers is how to find mystery writing resources. Sometimes I feel that many mystery writers aren’t very [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve worked hard to make sure that my books are available internationally. They sell well in Canada, the UK, and Australia, in particular. Not only do I have [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 40,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Larry Brooks of StoryFix frequently offers helpful posts for writers. He wrote a post recently for the Kill Zone blog called “Three Quick and Easy Tips that Will [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read a nice post by Nils Ödlund, “Don’t Show, Don’t Tell — How to Leave Room for the Reader’s Imagination ” on the Mythic Scribes blog. As he says [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig,o9 I’ve recently been interested in expanding my books into every format that I can. Who knows how someone might want to read my books? I’m in digital, print (paperback), [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
By Selina Siak Chin Yoke, @SiakChinYoke With the publication of my debut novel, The Woman who Breathed Two Worlds, by Amazon Crossing in 2016, I achieved a long-cherished dream. And when the book [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig A weekly roundup of the best writing links from around the web. Twitterific writing links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I read a lot of blog posts about revision and most of them are focusing on the big things: arc, character development, conflict, etc. This is a post [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was a traditionally-published author, I remember my frustration that I didn’t hold any audiobook rights. My publisher held them, but never exploited them. And I regularly [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the most awkward things about being a writer is handling reviews and reader comments. The rule of thumb is to never reply or comment on reviews: [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Unpleasant characters are tough for any genre. But for mysteries, they present special challenges. My editors from Penguin would often bring up concerns they had with unpleasant characters [...]
by Mark Gottlieb, @Trident_Media As a literary agent in major trade publishing at the Trident Media Group literary agency, I often have to explain the elements of a good query letter to new [...]
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