by Linda Rodriguez Recently, I was invited to participate in an anthology of short fiction to benefit a cause I truly believe in—PROTECT, The National Association to Protect Children, a wonderful organization that works to change the laws of this country to give more protection from abuse and sexual predators to children. http://www.protect.org/ In Protectors […]
by Linda Rodriguez In the second Skeet Bannion novel, Every Broken Trust, I’ve complicated Skeet’s life and relationships with a dark and dangerous man of mystery who walks into the story and makes Skeet feel things that scare her, as well as bringing out the jealous side of nice Joe Louzon, Skeet’s friend and possible […]
A Clock by Any Other Name by Linda Rodriguez I imagine most of you reading this will have seen the news stories about Ahmed Mohamed, the fourteen-year-old boy who built a digital clock in a pencil case and brought it to school to show his teacher, only to be handcuffed and publicly perp-walked out of […]
by Linda Rodriguez By sheer accident, I overheard an interaction between two strangers a while back that may have led me to inadvertently put on a curse on one of them. The last time I went to see my oncologist, who’s at a hospital in a suburb an hour’s drive from my house, was the […]
Thank you to the amazing Linda Rodriguez for inviting me to guest blog on The Stiletto Gang today. You see, I thought I might become a mystery writer, too. But no one died in the first chapter or two of the book I wrote. My debut novel The Cake Therapist (Berkley, June 2015) turns out […]
by Linda Rodriguez I’m a big believer in using all the help technology and professional writing books and programs can give me in writing. I’ve tried using all kinds of workbooks, charts, and forms in working on a novel. I’m even exploring Scrivener-type software programs for use in writing my next book. I’m hardly on […]
by Linda Rodriguez (This blog originally ran on Writers Who Kill) I am so incensed and upset about the massacre by a white supremacist of nine African American people at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston that I can’t think of anything else to write about, yet I don’t want to just add to the […]
by Linda Rodriguez My stepfather coaching my little brother’s Litlle League team When I look back on my life, I realize I’ve been lucky enough to be closely involved with three men who had the ability to take on children who weren’t their own genetic children and love and care for them as fathers. It […]
By Linda Rodriguez One of the best books on actually living a writer’s life is Making a Literary Life by Carolyn See. I often give it as a gift to serious aspiring writers I know. Carolyn is herself an award-winning novelist, and her advice is pretty solid. (I have come to feel as if she […]
By Linda Rodriguez As some of you readers of this blog know, I’ve been through a real run of bad luck lately, battling cancer and complications and then, once free of that, breaking two bones in my right wrist. In recent months, I’ve felt more than a little like Joe Mphstlspk of L’il Abner cartoon […]