donalee Moulton’s newest book is Melt. It’s the second in her Lotus Detective Agency series, and it focuses, as does the first book, Bind, on three women who meet in yoga studio and discover there is more to life than a downward dog. There are crimes to be solved. Long before the series was even … Read more
Hi all. Today my guest poster is author Joan Regen. Joan lives in the New York metropolitan area, is an award-winning published photojournalist, has short suspense stories in Anthologies—two are historical in theme—and teaches English as a Second Language to students around the globe. She published JAMIE IS AUTISTIC (Spanish and English) and GO FOR … Read more
Today, author A.D. Price is guest posting. She’s a native of Washington, D.C., an award-winning author specializing in historical crime fiction and arts-related nonfiction, and in addition to articles and books for Enslow Press, Grunge.com, Netflix, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (among others), she served as a writer-editor for the celebrated … Read more
Hi all. Today is a guest post by author Nancy Cole Silverman. Nancy spent 25 years in Newstalk radio, and finally retired to pursue writing fiction. Her crime-focused novels have attracted readers across America, and her short stories have been featured in numerous anthologies. Nancy is the author of the Carol Childs and Misty Dawn … Read more
Today we have budding fantasy author Joel C. Flanagan-Grannemann. He tells me he has been writing since childhood, has a B.A. in writing from the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford in Bradford, PA, and has lived in Columbia, SC for more than twenty years with his wife and editor, Jay-Jay Flanagan-Grannemann, and a coterie of … Read more
Lorie and I have been friends for some years, though we seldom see each other in the wild because I live in southern California and she lives in the Central Valley. But the mystery writing world, being what it is, connects us in all sorts of ways. She is the creator and has been running … Read more
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