Maximum Exposure: Tips to Overcome Promo Paralysis
Authors love talking about the craft of writing, but most absolutely hate publicizing and promoting their work. In many cases,[…]
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Authors love talking about the craft of writing, but most absolutely hate publicizing and promoting their work. In many cases,[…]
Read moreFrom April 25-27, 2025 Bethesda, Maryland was where you wanted to be. Malice Domestic is a fan conference celebrating the[…]
Read moreAdvice from Kelly Oliver I’m delighted to welcome Kelly Oliver, the award-winning and bestselling author of four mystery series: The[…]
Read moreElvis is Everywhere The year I came to the United States, Elvis was everywhere. He died three days after I[…]
Read moreI’ve always loved history and I’d love to write a historical mystery but I’m intimidated by the research. In my[…]
Read morePlease welcome Melissa Westemeier, who will tell us about her change of habit as she publishes the first in her[…]
Read moreRecently I spent four days leading a workshop at the NY Write to Pitch Conference. As the members of my[…]
Read moreFrom the early childhood game of Peek-a-Boo to an unexpected bouquet of roses after a hard day at work, the pay-off, neuroscientists tell us, is a rush of dopamine, intensifying our emotions by as much as four hundred percent. How do we use this human affinity for surprise in our mystery fiction? No mystery there. Overturning the expectations of readers, surprising them, is called a “plot twist,” that moment when everything the reader has been led to believe turns out to be wrong.
Read moreToday, April 17th, is the publication day for my eighth historical thriller, The Versailles Formula. Seeing my novel out in[…]
Read moreI was starstruck the first time I moderated a panel of writers at a local library. I hadn’t finished the[…]
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