I’m delighted to welcome Judy Penz Sheluk as my guest to talk about her new release: Finding Your Path to Publication: A Step-by-Step Guide. Because I’ve loved her two fiction series: The Glass Dolphin mysteries and the Marketville mysteries, I know this will be a valuable non-fiction tool for writers. See you next month! —Debra […]
Delighted to welcome Judy Penz Sheluk as my guest this month. The characters in her books are always so realistic and fun that I was thrilled she picked them to talk about. Enjoy! – Debra Creating (and Eliminating) Secondary Characters by Judy Penz Sheluk Several years back I had the pleasure of attending an event […]
While Linda Rodriguez continues her Stiletto Sabbatical, look for guest authors on the first Friday of each month. Today’s guest is a special treat – former Stiletto member Judy Penz Sheluk. When Ideas Have Ideas of Their Own by Judy Penz Sheluk People often ask where my ideas come from. Sometimes they come from stories […]
By Judy Penz Sheluk It’s been a couple of years since I joined The Stiletto Gang, thanks to Debra Goldstein’s efforts to recruit me at Bouchercon Toronto in 2017. While I’ve had an absolute blast, I’m at the point in my life where something has to give, at least if I want to keep writing […]
By Judy Penz Sheluk For those of you unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month. It began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. This year, I’m committed to working on the final book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I’m lucky in that my husband and I own a camp on Lake Superior, near Sault Ste. Marie (pronounced Soo), Ontario. The US (Michigan) side is known as the Upper Peninsula (known as the UP). Now the downside is it’s a long way from where we live (about 8 hours by car) […]
Judy Penz Sheluk here, except, well…I’m not really here, I’m at our camp on Lake Superior in Northern Ontario, hopefully enjoying a hot, sunny Canada Day. And because I wasn’t sure if I could check in, I’ve invited my friend Vicki Batman to guest blog for me. Of course, like all best laid plans, Vicki’s […]
Judy Penz Sheluk I’m beyond excited to announce that the The Best Laid Plans: 21 Stories of Mystery & Suspense is now available for pre-order on Kindle and in trade paperback at all the usual suspects. This is the first multi-author anthology to be published by my imprint, Superior Shores Press. The original call for […]
Judy Penz Sheluk here: I’m beyond excited to announce the release of the audiobook version of Past & Present, Book 2 in my Marketville Mystery series and the sequel to Skeletons in the Attic. To celebrate, I’ve got 1 free download code for US/Canada Audible members and 1 free download code for UK Audible members for […]
By Judy Penz Sheluk People often ask me where I get my ideas and I always tell them “from life.” That may sound trite, but it’s true. And while every author, and every book, follows a different path, I will tell you this secret: It all starts with a premise. Here’s another secret: there’s no […]