What I’ve Learned Writing Mysteries
Mystery authors often joke about what someone might think who happened to see the cache of websites they’ve visited on their computers....
Lost Treasure Tales
When I was in eighth grade, my parents gave me a book called Lost Treasure Trails by Thomas Penfield. I was enthralled as I read of...
Tougher Jobs Than Writing
Spring is here and despite the pandemic, some of us are thinking about where we’ll go for summer vacation. Travel is enlightening and...
Critique Groups for Better Rewriting
The important fact to embrace as you join a critique group is to know without equivocation that you are a writer and like all writers,...
Plotting to the End
One writer in my critique group wrote wonderful first chapters in a unique voice with humorous characters. All of us loved his writing....
Self-Publishing Grows Up
My friend Felix wanted to be known as an author. Even before he retired, he worked hours daily on his novel. His wife, an English...
Writers Need a Business Plan
If you are seeking an agent or publisher for your nonfiction book, you will have to provide a business plan. What is that? You ask. In...
The Writer As Victim
Naiveté, desperation, eagerness. What does that spell to you? To me it spells V-I-C-T-I-M. It can also spell W-R-I-T-E-R. A writer eager...
Self-Publishing Don'ts
I enjoy mysteries with an archaeologist or forensic anthropologist as the protagonist, so I happily delved into a book by Dana Cameron...
Making Foreign Rights Sales
Representing my small independent publishing company, Summit Crossroads Press and its fiction imprint, Amanita Books, I am a long-time...
