August 2021 - Miss Demeanors

Twitter: Cesspool, Network, or Laughfest?

August 31, 2021 Keenan Powell Uncategorized

I’ve learned more about agents and authors on Twitter than I have in the past six years of attending conferences and doing Facebook.

It’s Frankenstein Day!

August 30, 2021 Emilya Naymark #inspiration, Fiction, Holidays, Uncategorized, Writing

August 30th is National Frankenstein Day! Frankenstein, written in 1818 by an eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin Shelley, remains an amazingly relevant story to this day.

The research side of writing.

August 27, 2021 Tracee de Hahn Fiction, Historical Mysteries

Research. We’ve all done interviews, read material, and done lots of things to get details right. What’s the most unusual (or unexpectedly helpful) place you’ve turned to for info?

Quirky Characters

August 25, 2021 C. Michele Dorsey Uncategorized

What is it about Kinsey Millhone? I didn’t realize how much I miss Kinsey Millhone until I saw the ad[…]

Rediscovering Ruth Rendell

August 24, 2021 Susan Breen Fiction

This is how Ruth Rendell’s novel, Shake Hands Forever, begins: “The woman standing under the departures board at Victoria Station[…]

Lessons From the Cafeteria of Life

August 23, 2021 Connie Berry Fiction, Writing

Long ago in a world that has passed away, I grew up in a small town in northern Illinois. In our town was a cafeteria, Bishop’s Buffet. That where I first understood the phrase “your eyes are bigger than your stomach.” I’m experiencing something similar today in my writing.