A Guest Blog Post by Author Rosalind Barden When I embarked on writing the second book in my 1930s cozy noir “Sparky of Bunker Hill Mystery” series, THE CANNIBAL CAPER, I didn’t think I’d have a problem remembering what the characters looked like in the first book, THE COLD KID CASE, the location descriptions, … Read more
Truth Time: Have you ever eaten a hamburger that remotely resembled the one on the billboard or the TV commercial? Me neither. It’s easy to recognize obvious distortion. (And sad that we have come to accept the practice, but that’s a discussion for another day.) What’s more challenging is to catch the subtle ways in … Read more
By Avery Daniels Hello and thank you, Jeri, for inviting me on your blog. Writing a novel is challenging. Not only do you need a compelling plot that moves along, keeping the reader’s interest, but you must bring characters alive that engage the reader’s emotions without dumping all the individual back stories at once. There … Read more