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.
Trust
/in Publishing, Author Life, Brooke Terpening, Copyright/by Brooke TerpeningOur stories are our children. We nurture them, worry about them, and entrust them to others on their journey into the world. As writers, we trust our beta readers, critique partners, agents, and most of all, our publishers to care for and not share our work inappropriately. Imagine, after years of working with an agent […]
Rejoining the Gang: Judy Penz Sheluk
/in Judy Penz Sheluk/by Judy Penz ShelukWriting Life and Inspiration: Strangers + “What if?” = Plots and Characters in Fiction
/in writing life, amateur sleuth mysteries, Author Life, author promotion, Book events, characters, Cozy Mysteries, crafting cozies, humor, indie publishing, Inspiration, Lois Winston, Mysteries, New Release, Publishing, Series, Uncategorized, women sleuths/by Lois WinstonBy Lois Winston Whenever I hear a writer complain that she can’t come up with an idea for a plot or character, I offer this advice: “Get off your phone and keep your eyes and ears open.” No matter where I go—from the supermarket to a doctor’s appointment to the line at the DMV—I see […]
Sisterhood of the Traveling Book
/in T.K. Thorne/by TK ThorneToday we’re traveling to meet T.K. Thorne! T.K. Thorne wanted to make first contact with aliens. When that didn’t work out, she became a police officer. Although most people she met were human, some were quite strange…. Retiring as a precinct captain, she writes full-time. Her books include two award-winning historical novels (Noah’s Wife and Angels […]
It’s No Secret by Saralyn Richard
/in Mystery/by Saralyn RichardIt’s no secret that I worked in urban high schools as a teacher, administrator, and consultant before becoming an author of fiction. So, when I wrote A MURDER OF PRINCIPAL, all of my close friends and colleagues couldn’t wait to see whether they would make an appearance in the book […]