Editing an Anthology
by Sandra Murphy In October, A Murder of Crows, a twenty-one story anthology, went live on Amazon. The call for submissions remained out for three months. Surprisingly, no one sent…
Fiction Writing
Ten Tips on How to Write Short Stories that Sell
by Jacqueline Seewald, reprinted with permission I’ve written well over a hundred original short stories, most of which have sold to paying markets and some of which have also sold…
Why I Love to Write Cozies
by Marilyn Levinson aka Allison Brook, reprinted with permission Like many novelists who have been writing for several years, I write in several genres—mysteries, romantic suspense, and kiddie lit. Recently…
Four Ways to Avoid Moralizing in Your Young Adult Fiction
by Gila Green Like millions of other authors, I write because I have a message I’m passionate about; I want to express myself to the world. The problem with long…
Murder, He Wrote
by Jon Land Jessica Fletcher became part of my life back in May of 2017 when my agent called to ask whether I’d be interested in working with Don Bain…
Fifteen Things You May Not Know About Jessica Fletcher
by Jon Land The publication of Murder in Red marks the 35th anniversary of the eternal Murder, She Wrote series, which debuted on CBS in 1984. But did you know…
Jamaica Inn Meets The Shining: The Evolution of a Gothic Thriller
by Judy Nedry When I started writing my first gothic novel, I wasn’t thinking of vampires. or anything close to that. Rather than vampires and 1990s teens running around in…
Switching It Up
by Peg Cochran You know that expression “changing horses in mid-stream”? I guess you can say that’s what I did when I went from writing contemporary cozies to writing an…
When Jane Meets Sally or How to Write a Crossover Book
by C. Hope Clark Embarrassingly, I had never heard the term Crossover Book until my publisher asked me to write one. Then once I realized what he meant, an “Oh,…
Writing Fiction Often Follows a Twisty Path
by Terrie Farley Moran Fiction! Reading fiction spurs the reader’s imagination and helps it fly away as if on a winged horse. Writing fiction—well, that is a different horse entirely,…