by Bethany Maines Bethany Maines Debra Sennefelder Part of being a collective blog group is that we have many fantastic members that I’ve never met in person and aside from the sparkling repartee on group email threads (trust me we’re brilliant), we often don’t get a chance to interact with each other. So this month, […]
by Bethany Maines Welcome to a brave new age – the future! When my co-writers and I agreed to collaborate on Galactic Dreams – a series of sci-fi fairy tale adaptations – we had no idea that the project would stretch into three volumes. Galactic Dreams (from Blue Zephyr Press) is a unique shared universe […]
by Bethany Maines I have a book hangover. I’m about to close out a series that’s very near and dear to my heart. The Shark Santoyo Crime Series has characters that got under my skin and I’m loathe to let them go. So much so, that I’m leaving the door wide-open for sequels, but I […]
by Bethany Maines One of the best parts about the Stiletto Gang is the chance to meet and work with other mystery and romance writers. I have made many lasting friendships and learned a great deal from my fellow gang members. And last year, when Judy Penz Sheluk, a former Stiletto Gang member, posted about […]
by The Stiletto Gang Our beloved gang member C.P. Perkins is under the weather and unable to come to the computer today. We wish her the speediest of recoveries. For the curing of sickly authors, the Stiletto Gang recommends picking up one of their books and/or leaving a review on your favorite site. And of […]
by Bethany Maines Writing short stories is a unique art form, one that I used to pursue and then, like someone finding a new love, I dropped in favor of novels. Because novels were dreamy and just so much cooooooler than those short stories. But in the past few years, I’ve found myself once again […]
by Bethany Maines On my first book, Bulletproof Mascara, the novel was also spun off into an audio book and (guilty admission) I have never listened to it. Or rather, I got ten minutes in, freaked out, turned it off and never went back. It wasn’t that it was bad. It was more that the voices […]
by Bethany Maines Last weekend, I reached peak pandemic and hosted a gathering in my carport. It was a writer’s gathering, aka a Plotting Party, so there was a lot of sitting and staring at our notebooks. And also snacking and freezing. But, as with other joint writing gatherings I’ve hosted, we did use each […]
by Bethany Maines As I write this, I am very far behind on writing my fourth book in the San Juan Island Mystery series. I have a title, a nice first chapter, and half an outline. Which is at least half a draft short of where I wanted to be at this time. And […]
by Bethany Maines You know how Madonna now talks with a British accent? And everyone kind of mocks her? It is annoying to have someone you know grew up in Michigan try and sound all posh, but at the same time… I would be the same way. I once realized that I had been watching […]