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.
The Fallen Man Release
/in Author Life, characters, How to Write, New Release, Romance/by Bethany Mainesby Bethany Maines The Fallen Man Release! Next week sees the release of the fourth book in the Deveraux Legacy series – The Fallen Man. I suspect that each author picks their projects based on something in the story that they want to explore. For me this series started out as an exploration of why […]
Gay Yellen: Great Balls of… Ice?
/in Author Life, Uncategorized/by Gay YellenWarning: the writer is grouchy today because the old refrigerator died. It was a 1983-vintage custom-designed fridge that we inherited when we bought our home thirty years ago. It was sleek, streamlined and fit in seamlessly with the cabinetry. But it was too old to be repaired, so the search was on for a new […]
How I Met the Coroner
/in Uncategorized/by Donnell Ann Bellby Donnell Ann Bell You’ve heard of How I Met your Mother? Well, today I’d like to talk about How I Met the Coroner. If you’re a mystery writer, chances are you need knowledge of bodies now and then, or perhaps you need to know how to bump somebody off. When I began my […]
October Is Breast Cancer Awareness Month–Message from a Survivor
/in Uncategorized/by Linda Rodriguezby Linda Rodriguez October is my birthday month, which makes it quite an important month to me. It’s also Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a topic about which I, unfortunately, have a great deal of experiential knowledge from my childhood. Most well-known, it is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I’d like to talk about breast cancer […]
So You Want to Write a Book Part 6: First Draft Complete – Now what?
/in Uncategorized/by Mary Lee Ashfordby Sparkle Abbey “It’s never too late in fiction or in life to revise.” -Nancy Thayer Welcome back to another chapter of So You Want to Write a Book! If you’ve finished that first draft, you’ve got words on the page and you’re ready for the next step. If you’re still working on your first […]