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.
Read more
Latest Posts
Simon & Schuster Will No Longer Require Blurbs
In what is shaping up to be a controversial decision (at least according to social media), Simon & Schuster’s new[…]
Read more
Flash Fiction for Novelists
I’ve been intrigued by flash fiction since reading an interview with Shelby van Pelt, author of the lovely novel Remarkably[…]
Read more
Standing Up to My Inner Critic
Among the high points of 2012, my first year as a published novelist, was the Debut Authors breakfast held in[…]
Read more
Blood of the Innocents
Sending a book that I’ve spent eighteen months writing, out into the world is scary. What if they hate it?[…]
Read more
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[…]
Read more
Why Write Now?
I’m honored to join the fabulously talented and hard-working authors who are the Miss Demeanors, and I’m especially looking forward[…]
Read more
Merchandising: Sales Tool or Author Side Hustle?
Some Savvy Authors See it as Both I have to admit that despite creating a few mugs as giveaways for[…]
Read more
A Different Way of Pitching
On March 1, I’ll be moderating a panel at the Gotham Writers Genre Fiction Conference. Something that makes this conference[…]
Read more
Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction
The COVID conundrum in crime fiction
Read more