Who are the Stiletto Gang?
The Stiletto Gang is a group blog full of traditional and indie published romance and mystery authors talking about writing, life, and how hard it is to find a new way to kill someone. Each day of the week features a new author. We keep our monthly blogging schedule posted in the sidebar. and we invite you to follow us on Facebook and/or sign up for daily blog alerts.
Rejection
/in Author Life, author promotion, humor, Marketing/by Bethany MainesRejection is Knocking Part of any creative endeavor that gets shared with the public is rejection. I understand that not every person will love my creative projects. And I even get that somewhere out there is someone who hates my books and art. In fact, I kind of hope there is. I would like to […]
Do You Suffer from Food on the Brain?
/in Author Life, Cozy Mysteries, Desserts, Gluttony, humor, Mystery, Mystery Series, Secret Passions, women sleuths/by Gay YellenConfession time here. It has taken me years to admit this, but here goes: I am a foodaholic. I love food, and I think about it almost every hour of the day. My addiction began in the early days of writing the Samantha Newman Mystery Series. I didn’t recognize the issue until several readers complained that […]
Can a Book Effect Change?
/in Donnell Ann Bell, Inspiration, Linda Rodriguez, Publishing, Racism, T.K. Thorne, The Stiletto Gang, Writing and the Arts/by Donnell Ann BellGood Monday morning. The Stiletto Gang is a group of authors that touch mostly on marketing, the craft of writing, the concept behind our books and/or the genre of what we’re writing. Last week, two of our authors didn’t just touch on a topic, they challenged it and downright addressed the world’s most serious problems. […]
How Can Writers Help Create a Safer Society for All?
/in Uncategorized/by DebraHow Can Writers Help Create a Safer Society for All? by Linda Rodriguez In 2015, Dylann Roof murdered nine innocent people at a church prayer meeting in Charleston, South Carolina, and was later sentenced to death. This brought back the horror of so many racist mass murders before and since. It tied into a concurrent […]
Guest Interview with Author Joel W. Barrows
/in Author Life, Interview, Mystery, Suspense/by Mary Lee AshfordBy Sparkle Abbey Please welcome our friend and fellow author, Joel W. Barrows to the blog today. Joel is a member of our local Sisters in Crime – Iowa chapter and we’ve mostly conversed via Zoom but recently had the opportunity to meet in person at a fun writers’ retreat – Only Books in the […]