It’s Showtime! Tips for Moderating Author Panels
I was starstruck the first time I moderated a panel of writers at a local library. I hadn’t finished the[…]
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Category: Writers
Fiction vs. Nonfiction: 5 Differences in an Author’s Eye
As an author of fiction and nonfiction, I’m often asked which I prefer to write. It’s not that easy a[…]
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What’s a Mini-PlotPantser?
It’s no secret. I’m a pantser. And I’ll never be a plotter, someone who outlines before starting to write. But[…]
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Write Your Back Cover Blurb First
There are endless ways to write a story. Some authors pen their prose early in the morning or only at[…]
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Great Expectations and Bad Breakups
Great Expectations and Bad Breakups: How writers craft endings that justify the means and means that justify the ends. See also: Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with a Knife.
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In Bowler Hat and By Bicycle, Harriet Morrow is On the Case!
Please welcome Rob Osler, here to tell us about designing the protagonist of his new historical series, and its first[…]
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Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction
The COVID conundrum in crime fiction
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Hemingway’s Tips for Writers
Happy 2025! As many of us start new writing projects, I came across these seven tips for writers from Ernest[…]
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Self care for Writers
Let’s start with your skin. I apply a moisturizer that “helps shield blue light exposure” once or twice during a[…]
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Author Lynda Allen stops by to answer our Proust Questionaire – and also to let you know what a Jersey Cozy is.
Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]
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