by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com I’ve written a lot of murder victims over the years, and most of them weren’t particularly nice people. In a cozy mystery, an unlikeable victim means plenty of [...]
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by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethspanncraig.com Sidekicks are important characters in cozy mysteries. They keep our sleuth from having a lot of interior monologue about suspects and motives, for one thing (which can get [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig In every cozy mystery, there comes a time when the sleuth puts together various clues and realizes who the perpetrator is. But the timing of this revelation can [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig For me, brainstorming clues for my mysteries has always been one of the toughest parts of writing a mystery. Mystery readers are incredibly savvy and they’re very good [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Here’s a quick tip today for cozy mystery writers. Is your cozy mystery too short? Do readers (or beta readers) say that they were able to figure out [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re writing a cozy mystery, there are little things that come up sometimes. Writing is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure process. You have so many different choices that can take [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Today I thought I’d cover my process for starting a new cozy series. This post isn’t intended to replace the more in-depth posts I created for developing a [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig It’s been a long time since I developed a new cozy mystery series. Long enough so that I tried to remember exactly how I’d gone about it the [...]
by Elizabeth Spann Craig, @elizabethscraig I can only imagine the number of murder motives that I’ve come across in the last 35 years that I’ve read and watched mysteries. While writing cozy mysteries, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig One of the questions I’m most asked when I speak is how I come up with my ideas. This, of course, is probably the number one question that all [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig Believe it or not, there are ways to make cozy mystery writing complex. And I think cozies are fairly easy books to write. At first I titled this [...]
By Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig This is the last post in my series on cozy writing. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 6.) Today I thought I’d wrap up a few things that are, [...]
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig If you’re just joining us, I’ve been running a series on writing cozy mysteries. (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5). Today I thought I’d cover a few problem [...]
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