Listening to son number three rant about the dating scene made me realize that even if it’s been a million years since I was unattached, first dates are still the pits. A recent example. He’d met an interesting woman who was a friend of a friend of a friend. They’d chatted by phone, exchanged a […]
Today we have a Q & A with Wendy Burt-Thomas. She is a full-time freelance writer, editor and copywriter with more than 1,000 published pieces. Her third book, “The Writer’s Digest Guide to Query Letters” hit stores in January 2009. To learn more about Wendy or her three books, visit www.GuideToQueryLetters.com. If you have a […]
As my co-author and I are gearing up to promote the May publication of Murder Takes the Cake, we’re discussing our favorite way to reach mystery readers and sell books – events at public libraries. When you give a presentation in a library, your audience is filled with people who love books, love talking about […]
One of my fondest memories is the one and only time I was in New York and while searching for a place to eat, came upon four rather inebriated Irishmen singing outside an Irish pub. Of course that’s where we chose to eat–great food and all the wait staff was Irish with wonderful Irish accents. […]
The economy is in the pits, the publishing business has gone south, and it doesn’t take long to balance my checkbook since there’s not much in there …yadda, yadda, yadda. I know I’m preaching to the choir. Like most people, I’m thinking long and hard about every purchase and eliminating many of the extras in […]
Mr. Stratton straightened. His smile faded. “Now, who is to be spokesman?” “I am,” said Trixie. Jim was co-president of the Bob-Whites, but Trixie usually did the talking. “Trixie, the School Board doesn’t want secret societies to exist in Sleepyside schools, when clubs – really gangs – can be the source of so much trouble. […]
It’s an in-between moment that’s hard to describe. It’s the time after you know a review of your new book is there for all the world to see and before you actually click the link or turn to the magazine page to read it. You hold your breath, torn between wanting to know what it […]
It was certainly a whirlwind time! We left home early Wednesday a.m. headed for Las Vegas. It’s about a 6 hour drive through the mountains and then the desert. First stop, my sis’s. As usual, we had a great time gabbing. Thursday afternoon hubby and I headed for Henderson NV, more or less a suburb […]
The good news: Murder Takes the Cake by Evelyn David will be published in May. The bad news: Murder Takes the Cake by somebody else was published in September 2008 and Death Takes the Cake by yet another author was published in February 2009. Oy! Book titles can’t be copyrighted. The collective Evelyn David chose […]
by Susan McBride If you didn’t guess by the title of this post, I’m one of those writers who usually flies by the seat of my pants. I never worked with outlines while composing 10 novels that never got published; nor did I use one for my two small press books or the five Debutante […]