by Constance Hood Writing historical fiction is a through-the-looking-glass experience. The mirror of life warps and bends. Your world separates into multiple dimensions, some layers reflecting you and other layers…
by Constance Hood What a boring world it would be if everyone were perfect. People would stack up in our lives like a bunch of Lego bricks, with uniform strengths…
by Lea Wait To begin with, I love history. I was a fourth-generation antiques dealer, love historical novels, and I’ve written five set in nineteenth-century Maine. Although my most recent…
by C. Hope Clark Read the one about the amateur sleuth dating a police detective in order to solve the crime? Or the one about the girl losing her career…
by Mandy Jackson-Beverly The definition of the word observe: to see, to watch, to perceive, and to notice. A couple of examples: I see a red light and stop my…
by Ellen Byron Before I was a television writer-producer (and an author), I was a playwright. I can tell you the exact moment I decided to transition from writing for…
Hi! I’m Karen MacInerney, and I’m the author of several mystery series, including the Agatha-nominated Gray Whale Inn mysteries and the Dewberry Farm mysteries. I’ve been writing for many years.…
by Rick Helms A great writer named Jerry Healy, who sadly left us a couple of years back, once said something that resonated strongly with me. It’s probably a quote…
by Patricia Fry Every hopeful author and freelance writer has heard this important credo: write about what you know. For years, I wrote nonfiction. Still do. But five years ago,…
by Alessandra Comini “You absolutely cannot enter. Important government papers are stored inside.” These were the words an Austrian government bureaucrat used to bar me from entering the provincial Neulengbach…
