By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ll be the first to admit that reading industry news can be…stressful. I’m one of those people who avoids confrontation at all costs, so I rarely weigh in, [...]
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By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig First off, I have an increasingly rare public appearance to announce. Saturday—tomorrow, actually—I’m going to be on a panel of mystery writers at 2:30 p.m. at the West [...]
By Kristi Belcamino, @KristiBelcamino Writers dream of the day when they walk into a bookstore, see a book they wrote on the shelf, and then hold that book in their own two hands! [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I dislike resolutions, but I do like setting goals. I know that June isn’t the popular month for setting goals that January is, but it’s a great time [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I don’t know if y’all operate the same way, but I will allow large projects that I know will be time-sucks slide for a while…years, usually…until I finally [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Just a quick wrap-up today of my thoughts on various formats/platforms I’m using to reach readers, an idea for a format I might explore in the future, and [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve never been a fan of exercising, although I’m trying to do better. I’ve read a slew of articles lately about the connection between exercise and creative thought. [...]
Guest Post by Marsali Taylor, @MarsaliTaylor The world is a more interesting place than our science can explain. I’ve always been at ease with the idea that the world is stranger and more interesting [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m an avid reader of mystery writer M.C. Beaton’s (pen name for Marion Chesney’s) books and have been for many years. I keep track of her releases and order [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
by J.J. Hensley, @JJHensleyauthor As most of you, I’ve read hundreds of mysteries and thrillers. And as most of you, I’ve recognized that many of them can be formulaic and use characters that [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve learned not to talk to my family about reviews. I’ve seen them flinch in the past when I’ve mentioned some of the negative things said about my [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Reading and writing have always gone hand in hand with me. I read early and read books I found around the house or at the library, whether they [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I was asked to speak to the 8th graders at the local middle school, my first thought was, “Oh cool…I can encourage young people to write.” Then [...]
by Deborah Nam-Krane, @dnkboston It took me almost six years to publish my series The New Pioneers, even though I had four completed novels. Part of my delay was that it takes a number [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve been hearing a lot lately about author earnings—self-published, traditionally published, and earnings from what writer Bob Mayer coined “hybrid writers.” I think that the chart that started [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Sometimes (rarely), a book flies along as I write it. The words come automatically into my head and I type quickly to get them down. The book I’m [...]
by Greg Strandberg, @gpstberg Authors come in two types: whales and mermaids. Whales have been at this game called publishing for some time and know the tips and tricks. Mermaids, however, are new [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One thing I’ve found with my writing is that my process tends to change or adapt through the years. It’s important to find what works, what helps us be [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’ve come to the conclusion that production plans are important for any prolific writer, whether they’re self-published, traditionally published, or a hybrid writer. I was lucky enough with [...]
by Barry Knister, @barryknister When I first decided to write a mystery series, the initial problem I faced didn’t have to do with writing. It had to do with the crime business. I’m [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It must have been 2011 when I was first asked to write an outline of a book for an editor. At that point I’d written four or five [...]
by C. S. Lakin, @CSLakin I ask a lot of questions in my line of work as a professional manuscript critiquer and copyeditor. Sure, I also give a lot of suggestions and fix [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Mystery writers that I’ve met tend to fall into a couple of different groups—writers who have picked their killer before they start writing their story (or early in [...]
by L. Diane Wolfe, @SpunkonaStick Self-publishing has become a very attractive venture for writers these days. It’s now much easier to send a book out into the world without the help of a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine(developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 23,000 free articles on writing related topics. It’s [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Tax time is making me a bit reflective this year. Maybe I didn’t have the time to reflect on Dec. 31st/Jan. 1 since I had a January 1 [...]
by Julie Musil, @JulieMusil My hubby and I are die-hard do-it-yourselfers. The home we live in now sits on what used to be nothing but acres of wide open dirt and scrub oak. [...]
by Kathy Owen, @kbowenwriter Elizabeth invited me to share with you one of my favorite classic detective novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. I love talking about the classics [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig These days, it seems as though everyone is talking about writing faster. And there’s definitely a link between the number of books we have available for sale and [...]
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