I recently found out that I’ll be writing a fourth Memphis Barbeque book. Good news! I’m really excited about spending more time with Lulu. The tricky part was figuring out when I can [...]

by @elizabethscraig 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 (now over 12,000) searchable. [...]

by Anne R. Allen, @AnneRAllen Hope you’ll join me in welcoming Anne R. Allen to the blog today. Anne’s blog is a great resource for writers…check it out. This week she has a [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Lately, I’ve been interacting with readers quite a bit. This, honestly, is pretty rare for me. I usually speak to writers twice as often as to readers. Speaking [...]

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Confidence is incredibly important for writing, but it’s hard to come by. There have been plenty of times when I’ve wanted to just throw a manuscript in the [...]

by @elizabethscraig 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 [...]

Hi everyone! Today I’m over at the Writers in the Storm blog with tips for writing mysteries. If you’ve ever thought about writing one, or if you’re a mystery reader, I hope you’ll [...]

@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 [...]

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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, [...]