Reading and Writing are Fattening

Holiday weight gain starts in October!               I used to gain ten pounds every year during the holiday season. How w...

Manuscript Organization and the Independent Writer I wish I could tell you that I have some amazing and simple organization s...

Discouragement and the Older Writer Is discouragement with writing any different for the older writer? The older writer h...

How Many Characters Are Too Many?         Will using too many make readers lose interest? Some critics complained th...

WHAT’S LUCK GOT TO DO WITH IT? FIVE TRAITS OF LUCKY PEOPLE       March is the month of four-leaf clovers, little green leprecha...

When I was working on my first novel, one of my earliest bits of writing advice was never kill off or injure a pet because most p...

THE KEPT WOMAN BY KARiN SLAUGHTER Much as I enjoy Slaughter’s Will Trent, a detective with a complex past and an even...

INSIDIOUS By Catherine Coulter Insidious runs two parallel plots. One is about a serial killer in LA who targets starlets...