Yesterday I passed on gift book recommendations from Natasha Wing, Teresa Funke, and Laura Backes. Here are some more ideas from more of my author/blogger friends. Gary Raham Gary, an author and illustrator who focuses on the world of nature, recommends Frisbee Dreams by Libby James for upper elementary and middle grade readers. Frisbee Dreams …Read More
Shopping for Books for Holiday Gifts? Here Are Some for Kids…
I love giving books as gifts, so earlier this fall I asked several of my writer and blogger friends to recommend some of their favorites for you. I’ll have a bunch of these posts over the next two weeks, with ideas for every age group of reader. Today and tomorrow I’m focusing on books for …Read More
The Making of a Mystery Author by Paty Jager
Many years ago, after years of reading mystery books, I decided to try my hand and brain at writing a mystery. I didn’t have a clue how a book was put together. I just knew what I liked to read and after a friend, figuratively, stabbed me in the back, I used my thoughts of …Read More
How to Write Good Historical Fiction for Children or Adults … by Teresa Funke
Apologies to anyone who adores Philippa Gregory, but I almost had to put down her book The Other Boleyn Girl when I was halfway through. She had a line of dialogue that read something like, “Oh Anne, you’re such a drama queen.” And I was gone. I finished the book, but she had lost all …Read More
The Night Before the Snow Day … by Natasha Wing
Note: Natasha has an active Goodreads giveaway for a copy of this book, but only one day left to sign up. When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I dreamed of snow days. For all you warm country people, that meant no school, snowman building, and sledding! The most disheartening sight was seeing …Read More
A Clever Book Giveaway on Goodreads from Natasha Wing and Bailey Cates
In her Magical Bakery Mystery #6, Spells and Scones, Bailey Cates mentions a kid’s book called The Night Before Thanksgiving by Natasha Wing, author of the Night Before series. Now Natasha is doing a Goodreads giveaway featuring signed copies of both books. The giveaway runs from October 25th to November 2nd. You know you want …Read More
HEROES: Standing the Test of Time … by Joylene Nowell Butler
I’m often asked how I create strong protagonists for my suspense novels. I love answering that question because in the initial stages, my protagonists are anything but strong. When introduced for the first time, Valerie (Dead Witness), Brendell (Broken But Not Dead), and Dakota (Break Time), tortured my beta readers with their blandness. My weakness …Read More
“Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries” and the team behind the book
I recently had the pleasure of reading an advance review copy of the mystery Mâtowak: Woman Who Cries (scheduled release date November 1st) by Joylene Nowell Butler, and will have the additional good fortune of hosting Butler this week as my guest author. One of the interesting things about this novel is the team behind …Read More
Know When to Quit … by Liana Brooks
“Never give up. Never surrender.” That’s my writing motto. Write regularly. Write through the bad days, the rejections, and everything else, and eventually you will write the books that you can build a career on. But there comes a point where you need to quit. Not quit writing, but quit writing that story, or that …Read More
Fame, Fate, and Fun With Words … by Kathy Lynn Emerson (aka Kaitlyn Dunnett)
Back at the end of August, I had what most people would call my “fifteen minutes of fame” after Jimmy Fallon, on the Tonight Show, held up one of the cozy mysteries I write as Kaitlyn Dunnett, Ho-Ho-Homicide, and announced that “It’s got two things everyone likes—Christmas and murder.” I was stunned when I saw …Read More
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