6 Easy Steps to Getting on TikTok
Any of us who’ve ever read about best-selling author Colleen Hoover know that TikTok has a vibrant book culture. I’ve[…]
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Marni Graff Author of The Nora Tierney English Mysteries and The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries
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Let’s Talk: A Few Thoughts About Dialogue by Andrew Welsh-Huggins
I first met Andrew Welsh-Huggins when he spoke years ago to our local Sisters in Crime chapter. At the time[…]
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Wonderful World of Words
“Words! Words! Words!” Eliza Doolittle sings in My Fair Lady. She wants Professor Henry Higgins to ‘show me’ how he[…]
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Report From the Promo Trenches
Report From the Promo Trenches: what I’ve learned launching Implied Consent.
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Geeking Out on Research
Authors have different avenues for research depending on the topic. I write contemporary fiction, and my preference is to interview[…]
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Los Angeles Mystery Author Delves Into A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
An Interview with Jeri Westerson I confess! I’ve been a Sherlock Holmes fan since before I could read (well). Also,[…]
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A Title is a Title is a Title. Or is it?
With all the books on offer, what makes a reader pull your book off the shelf? No one knows. But[…]
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It’s National Read a Book Day!
I’m reading The Searcher by Tana French now because when it first came out, I wasn’t very focused for a[…]
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Self-care for writers
Writing takes a toll on writers’ bodies. We slouch over our keyboards. We peer all day at screens. We can[…]
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There’s Rarely Only One Right Way
Lately I’ve been seeing and hearing a lot about how writers write, and I’m always astounded at how everyone’s process[…]
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