Pay it Forward Friday #FollowFriday
Crime writing authors are some of the most generous and encouraging people I’ve ever met!
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Month: January 2020
Authors & Their Animal Helpers
Writing can be a lonely job. So we often need that extra little help with things like editing, computer dusting, and of course marketing. When we need to read our drafts out loud? Our cats, dogs and hamsters are our best audiences.
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Branding & Marketing For Authors
This is a toughy for most authors. Being an author is about building a business. And it is in this realm, too. Yes, publishers -some of them- have publicists that work with you. But often they have too many authors whom they also work with and you might actually be the best one to decide on marketing ideas.
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To Conference or Not To Conference
Book conferences – should I stay or should I go?
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A Few of My Favorite People
All of us are actively involved in the writing and reading communities. We’re members of groups like Sisters in Crime[…]
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Surviving Ransomware Attacks (PSA for libraries…and the rest of us)
It’s not often my worlds collide. Ransomware – malicious programs that lock up files and demand payment to recover – landed at the crossroad of books and cyber crime this month. Libraries are falling victim to attacks.
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The Relatability Test
One question has been asked of me in every interview I’ve given. I’ve heard the same question asked of other authors at book launches, readings, and conferences. “Where do you get your ideas?”
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You Are What You Eat, Character Edition
Food is an interesting subject to write about. We all need to eat, but how and when is circumstantial. A character I’m writing right now demonstrates his love for his wife (one of 2 main characters) by cooking her favorite dish, pasta primavera. Sounds simple, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. Then I looked up a recipe.
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An Interview with Carol Pouliot
Is Time strictly linear, or can it be bent or twisted? The answer is well beyond my mental capacities, but the idea of time travel has always fascinated me. Today I have the distinct pleasure of interviewing Carol Pouliot, author of the Blackwell & Watson Time-Travel Mysteries featuring 1930s Detective Sergeant Steven Blackwell and present-day journalist and researcher Olivia Watson. Steven and Olivia share the same house in a small New York town—eighty years apart!
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What’s Your Passion?
People love hobbies. Some can be pretty bizarre—clipping and dying dogs to look like wild animals; collecting back scratchers or Ronald McDonald memorabilia; extreme ironing (I’m not making this up); doing cow impressions; playing dead.
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