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Much More Than A Group Blog!
I’ve been part of a group blog for nearly nine years. The six Wicked Authors were all starting our careers as mystery writers when we started the blog in 2013. Today we have eighty published books among us. But our blog is so much more than a five-days-a-week web presence. Each of us would tell […]
How The Piano Made Me A Better Writer
By Barbara Linn Probst The Sound Between the Notes is my second novel, but it’s also my first. I wrote it before I wrote Queen of the Owls, which was published a year ago, almost to the day … and rewrote it … and rewrote it … and rewrote it. The manuscript had even been […]
How Long Did It Take To Write?
By Maureen Boyle When my first book came out, at least one person would pose a simple question at promotional events: How long did it take to write? “Close to thirty years,” was my usual answer. I was only half joking. It took roughly a year to write “Shallow Graves: The Hunt for the New […]
From Novel to Screenplay: My Experience
Sheila Myers I had this idea that my Durant Family Saga trilogy would get optioned one day as a spin-off of the popular streaming series Hell on Wheels, and I’d make a million dollars. That hasn’t happened. Actually, I didn’t set out writing the Durant Family Saga with the idea it would be adapted to […]
The 5 Deadly Sins of Women Writers
by Carmen Amato The world needs the creativity and ideas that are uniquely yours to offer. If any of these deadly sins put your progress on hold, kick it to the curb as fast as you can. Envy “Look at her. She’s doing much better than me.” Said every woman writer at least once. You […]
Pamela Skjolsvik: Character Interview
In Skjolsvik’s latest, the cure for vampirism is much like the 12-step treatment for alcoholism, and Veronica goes to meetings just to make bearable the maddeningly boring life of being a middle-aged female vampire. An event as mundane as a trip to a tanning salon has Veronica facing her hunger for the dim-witted Britney, her […]
Post-it Notes, Planning and Plotting: Finding the Method in the Madness of Writing a Novel
Louisa Scarr I am currently two weeks into writing a new novel, at the juxtaposition where my vision of the masterpiece is the furthest possible point from the jumble of words on my screen. I know the story (kind of). I know the twists and turns (ish). But getting to a finished novel? Well. It […]
Interracial Friendship in Fiction By Jill McCroskey Coupe
In my novel Beginning with Cannonballs, two infant girls, Hanna and Gail, share a crib in Gail’s parents’ house, where Hanna’s mother is the live-in maid. This is in the 1940s in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, where I grew up. Despite having to attend different schools, the girls become close childhood friends. After that, it’s not […]
Interview with Barbara Linn Probst
Barbara Linn Probst Tell us about your new book! What is The Sound Between the Notes about? As Kirkus Reviews has described it, The Sound Between the Notes is “a sensitive, astute exploration of artistic passion, family, and perseverance.” It’s a story about what happens when a woman—a pianist—who’s always struggled with identity is given […]
Brittney Morris Interviews Alex Rufus
“Morris succeeds in blending moments of ‘Black boy joy,’ superhuman abilities, intergenerational trauma, mental health (including a description of self-harm), and loss into a resonant story of fraternal love that first compels, then devastates, and will be remembered for a long time.” —Publishers Weekly, starred About THE COST OF KNOWING Dear Martin meets They Both Die at […]
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