Tomorrow’s Guest Blogger Blogger friend and mystery author Alan Orloff will be here tomorrow to talk about his novel (Killer Routine) which debuts a new mystery series featuring a stand-up comic. Speaking of Mysteries, Here’s a New Twist The crime writing festival Magna cum Murder that takes place in late October in Muncie, Indiana (home …Read More
It’s not easy to be in three places at once…
but I’m doing my best. Besides my token appearance here to remind you tomorrow is my last Wednesday Scramble until May, I’m at: Chiseled in Rock for my regular Chiseled Tuesday to spread the word about the A to Z April Blog Challenge 2011 which begins on Friday (the last time I looked, the list …Read More
When You Run Out of Good Ideas…Run to Bartlett’s
A version of this post appeared here in June, 2009: I wanted to use the quote, “No good deed goes unpunished,” in a story, and it occurred to me that although I use the phrase from time to time, I had no idea of its origin. I pulled my copy of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations from …Read More
Have You Heard…?
About the Flip Dictionary? The product description at amazon.com says in part: ” Best-selling author Barbara Ann Kipfer has created a huge reference that offers cues and clue words to lead writers to the exact phrase or specific term they need. It goes beyond the standard reverse dictionary format to offer dozens of charts and …Read More
Secrets by Maggie Toussaint, Guest Blogger
My guest today is Maggie Toussaint, author of the Cleopatra Jones mystery series from Five Star/Cengage as well as novels of romance and romantic suspense from Wild Rose Press. Like many of us, Maggie did not start out as a fiction writer. With marriage, family, and career to deal with, it was only later that …Read More
Wednesday Scramble
Tomorrow’s Guest Maggie Toussaint, author of the newest Cleopatra Jones mystery, On the Nickel, will be here tomorrow. Her post is about Secrets… That Interview with Chuck Sambuchino If you missed my interview of Chuck Sambuchino (of the well-known Guide to Literary Agents blog) over at Chiseled in Rock blog yesterday, you can find it …Read More
Chiseled in Rock Tuesday: An Interview with Chuck Sambuchino
Chuck Sambuchino is the editor of the Guide to Literary Agents blog and a long list of Writer’s Digest publications. I asked Chuck questions ranging from his favorite chocolate chip cookies to what writers do wrong when they submit to agents. If you write, you don’t want to miss this one. Find us here: http://chiseledinrock.blogspot.com/
I should have been a cowboy…
Well, technically a cowgirl. But really. I should have. All those Zane Grey novels I read when I was young, the movies with Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and Rex Allen, the Arizona Cowboy, the cowboy songs like Red River Valley: “Just remember the Red River ValleyAnd the cowboy who loved you so true.” I …Read More
While I catch up on a few chores…
please have another cup of coffee and read this really funny Broken Hearts Blogfest post from Heidi Windmiller, who blogs at …then she writes. I laughed out loud, so I hope you enjoy it too. See you on Monday!
Creating Characters by Maryann Miller, Guest Blogger
Today I’m welcoming Maryann Miller, author, journalist, editor, screenwriter and more. She recently placed in the top 15 percent of entries in the Chesterfield Screenwriting Fellowship with the adaptation of her mystery, Open Season. Maryann lives in east Texas with her husband and an assortment of farm animals and pets (although I’m betting they all …Read More
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