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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Category: Tips and Tricks
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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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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Becoming a Debut Author: Kim Herman Shapiro
Please welcome Kim Herdman Shapiro to Miss Demeanors. Kim’s roots in journalism and poetry, in print, broadcast, and video, took[…]
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Five Tips for Aspiring Writers
For those of you just starting out in this bizarre world of self-expression/self-promotion, here are a few tips.
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Crafting Better Sentences: My Top Five Tips
Words are the building blocks of language and the means by which humans express their thoughts and feelings. Expressing thoughts and feelings is what writers do. We search for the perfect word in every situation, and we try to be precise. Words all by themselves conjure up images and emotions. But to move a book along, those words must be strung together into sentences that mean something. Does it matter how we string those words together? Yes, it does.
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