by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I probably should have run this post before Thanksgiving. But getting ready for Thanksgiving made me busy and I was juggling different activities—and writing. Which is what reminded [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’sKnowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If it seems a little quieter than usual on the web this week, it’s probably because Thanksgiving is tomorrow here in the States. Although I’ve got tweets scheduled [...]
by Paul Anthony Shortt, @PAShortt Thank you for having me, Elizabeth. Your blog is a constant source of wisdom which I try to apply to my work. I’ve always loved trilogies. They just [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’sKnowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and [...]
by Mike Martin A funny thing happened to me on the way to becoming a fiction writer. I ended up in mystery. I’m not really sure how I got here or why. But, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I finally got around to experimenting with doing a free promo. Naturally, I was interested in seeing if running this kind of a promo would boost sales of [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In my last post, I talked about production time for self-publishing and traditional publishing and how much shorter the lead-time for self-publishing is. Basically, you have the ability [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Paul Anthony Shortt had an interesting comment for my “Shorter Novels in the Digital Age?” post last week. He mentioned book spacing and book release timing (as far [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Writing at home is difficult sometimes. I do much of my writing at home, most of it before 5:30 a.m. But I’ve been trying to write a little [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Last week I was working on my current project. I felt good about it. I was definitely in the writing zone and everything was going well. Then I got [...]
by Laura Dennis, @LauraDennisCA Adoptees as ticking time bombs, “he’s f—ed up because he’s adopted.” … There’s more to it than that! In last Thursday’s guest post, I wrote about problems inherent in [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The key to discoverability, at this point, seems to be either writing a blockbuster of a book (which we’d all clearly be doing, if it were such an [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]
Available here by Laura Dennis, @LauraDennisCA Christian Grey is “fifty shades of f—ed up” according to EL James … because he’s adopted. Popular fiction (eh hem, Twilight) uses adoption as a cop-out to [...]
by Bill Hopkins, @JudgeHopkins Favorite Points of View: FIRST PERSON First person: This is a story that is usually narrated by the protagonist. If you use this, then your first sentence–or certainly [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’m not going to say that all writers are a little foggy when it comes to the business side of writing. But I will say that many writers [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]
by Gabriela Pereira, @DIYMFA Some writers love doing prompts. They sit in writing classes, pencils poised to start writing the moment the teacher gives an assignment. And when time is up, they shoot [...]
By Joanne Sydney Lessner, @joannelessner Earlier this month, SerialSleuths, Volume 1: Haunted hit the Kindle shelves. The brainchild of Jen Blood, author of the Erin Solomon mysteries, this short story collection features five [...]
By Peggy Williams & Mary Joy Johnson Ever want to kill your partner? Life partner? Business partner? Bridge partner? Instead of wanting to kill each other, the writing partnership M. J. Williams regularly [...]
Passion, lucidity and tenacity: keys to being a writer Anne Trager, founder of Le French Books, talks with international bestselling author Frédérique Molay Imagine writing a book in your spare hours, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig When I read writing rules posts, they usually remind me of the old grammar rules. You know, like: i before e, except after c…but there are exceptions. [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The last few years, I’ve kept a very strict writing schedule—mostly because of the deadlines that I had from the two imprints I was working for, Penguin NAL/Obsidian [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Every time I read a great post on cliffhangers, I feel a little sorry that I don’t write too many of them. It can make for a thrilling [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig The other night, I watched a mystery on television. The actors were good, the puzzle itself was good, and the setting—a boarding school— was interesting. The problem that [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week. The links are fed into the Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine (developed by writer [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig I’d been wanting to read something a little different, so I glanced through my TBR (to be read) list. Keith Richards’ Life was on there, and I figured [...]
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