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Reading Is More Important Than Writing
Carissa Ann Lynch I know what you’re thinking: I’ve heard this before. If you want to be a writer, you must first and foremost be a reader blah blah blah … Well, it’s true, actually. But I’d like to offer some deeper insight into my own writing process and how the role of reading plays […]
Things I Wish I’d Known About Book Marketing
Things I wish I’d known about book marketing: A few specific tips for the author who wants to sell books as well as write them! (1) When people ask me how I found my agent, I tell them about Publishers Marketplace https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/. This is an enormous database that lists (nearly) every book deal, as well […]
Character Interview – Erica Miner
Violinist turned author ERICA MINER interviews her character Julia Kogan. About Staged for Murder In this third novel in Erica’s “Opera Mystery” series, young violinist Julia heads to the San Francisco Opera with her significant other, Larry, and their five-year-old daughter, Rachel. Julia is under inordinate pressure, replacing ailing concertmaster, Ben, who has suffered serious […]
My Long and Winding Road to Publication
It’s been a long and winding road from the time I first started journaling about the sudden death of my best friend’s twelve-year-old son, Brendan, until the day my novel, Winter of the Wolf, was published. “Long” equating to eighteen years, and “winding” because nothing about it was straight forward. At the time of Brendan’s […]
Authors Interviewing Characters: Joy Jordan-Lake
“Crawdads meets the Crawleys…Threaded through with a meticulously researched, well-crafted mystery, this is historical fiction at its best.” —Fiona Davis, nationally bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue From the bestselling author of A Tangled Mercy comes an enthralling novel of secrets, a tumultuous war of ideas, and murder as classes collide in the shadow of Biltmore House. […]
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play
Writing for Children is more than Just Child’s Play by Lorraine Mace, author of Vlad the Inhaler – Hero in the Making With the rising market awareness of children’s books, it is not surprising that many would-be authors are deciding to try their luck with this genre, believing it to be an easy route to […]
How Writing Has Changed Over the Years
I have been an author a little over seven years now, but I’ve been a writer all my life. With three college degrees and working as a lawyer and college professor, I have had my share of writing—everything from term papers to legal briefs. And I find writing in an academic or professional setting is […]
Writing Pandemonium
The process of writing Pandemonium: a picture book for children 2–7 years By Gail Aldwin A few years ago, I began thinking about writing a children’s picture book. At the time I was delivering a module on writing for children to undergraduates at the University of South Wales. We were studying aspects of anthropomorphism […]
Excerpt of EDGE OF THE MAP by Johanna Garton
Voted a “must-read of 2020” by REI’s Uncommon Path Magazine, Johanna Garton’s Edge of the Map is the story of Christine Boskoff, one of the world’s top alpinists and a trailblazing record holder who overcame challenge after challenge… until she and her partner, renowned climber Charlie Fowler, disappeared. The story is equal parts climbing history, […]
Writing What You Know…With a Twist
By Rebecca Tucker When I tell friends what my upcoming novel, Secrets My Mothers Kept, is about, they inevitably respond with “So, it’s about your life!”, to which I respond, “Not exactly.” I don’t blame them for thinking so, however. After all, writers are often told to ‘write what you know’ and it’s true that, […]
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