Author Archive: Kiri Blakeley
Is Your Book Book Club Material? Ask A Book Club!
Beta readers. How necessary they are, but how hard to find. At least they were for me. I didn’t have that “writing bestie” who was dying to read my copy and who could be that magical combination of brutally truthful yet rah-rah encouraging. Most of my relatives stick to history or political tomes. My friends […]
Method Writing: When Imagining Just Isn’t Enough
I sat at my computer, poking myself in the throat. Not the throat exactly, but the soft pucker just above the sternum, a place called the jugular notch. As I tapped, the muscle below my ribcage tingled queasily and bile fizzled up my throat. I wrote: He doubled over, feeling as if he’d swallowed a […]
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