Reading and Writing are Fattening

                      Mystery vs. Suspense – Immediately related or twelve-times removed? The answer requires defining the two ...

Prologues –       To have or not to have, that is the question Last week a member of my writer’s group asked the rest of us...

Dedicated to A Special Group of Mothers My memories of Mother’s day as a child are filled with orchid corsages, hidden present...

Ranting, Raving, Reviews! Readers, do you leave reviews for the books you read? There’s no way around it; your reviews can ...

Serial killer or Serial books?        Your first novel is published. Is it set aside, forgotten like a serial killer who’s gott...

Chapters—The long and short of them               In my suspense novel, She’s Not There, I kept the chapters short, ranging f...

Suspense – With or Without a Shot of Romance?          I write suspense. When I was writing my first novel, one of my critics accu...

GREAT ENDINGS Heavily into editing and revising my second novel, now I’m questioning its ending. An avid reader, I’m possibly the ...

Editing is Just Like Cleaning House. (No wonder I hate it!)   Got the editing blues? You’ve written “The End” either on the page o...

Beware, the Murderers of Motivation! What is motivation? Call it a muse, being in the zone, or a creative surge, we all know what ...

That Baffling Back-Story! Are you guilty of back-Story Dump? One of the first writing lessons I learned from my writer’s group wa...

Before You Publish—Sharpen Your Hook! 11 Ways to Attract Your Readers              One of the real challenges to eBook sales is t...