Author Archive: Elizabeth Craig

Elizabeth writes the Memphis Barbeque series for Penguin/Berkley (as Riley Adams), the Southern Quilting mysteries (2012) for Penguin/NAL, and the Myrtle Clover series for Midnight Ink. She blogs daily atMystery Writing is Murder, which was named by Writer’s Digest as one of the 101 Best Websites for Writers for 2010 and 2011.

Her most recent releases are Finger Lickin’ Dead, the second of the Memphis Barbeque series (June 2011 for Penguin), Progressive Dinner Deadly a Myrtle Clover Mystery (August 2011),  Hickory Smoked Homicide (a November 2011 release), and A Dyeing Shame a Myrtle Clover mystery (December 2011).

Elizabeth is active in the online writing community.  She shares writing-related links on Twitter as @elizabethscraig and posts on craft and the publishing industry on her blog, Mystery Writing is Murder. She and Mike Fleming of Hiveword also manage theWriter’s Knowledge Base–a free search engine to help writers find resources.

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A Search Engine for Writers

A Search Engine for Writers

How do you search for writing articles on a particular topic? For most of us, we’d first pull up Google. Let’s say we’re struggling a little bit with POV (point of view) — we’ve gotten some editorial feedback that we’re head-hopping.  So we plug in POV to Google. The first result is a documentary series […]

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Writing and a Busy Life?  Four Tips for Making it Work.

Writing and a Busy Life? Four Tips for Making it Work.

I was recently talking on the phone to my mother and catching her up with our family’s schedule for the next few months—my kids’ activities, doctor and dental appointments, carpools, writing conferences, a talk I was giving at the college I’d attended, and my next deadline—I’m under contract for two books for two different series […]

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