by Terri Benson This post was originally published on September 9, 2013 Just about any form of writing requires research, some more than others. Being a historic romance and cozy mystery writer, I do my fair share of research on a wide variety of topics. And that’s a lot of the reason I write –…
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A Very Happy Query Days!
By Julie Kazimer *Keep reading for a very special holiday gift from me to you! No skipping ahead or you’ll be on the naughty list. Oh, the holidays. Goodwill toward our fellow man. Gingerbread houses. A half-finished novel left over from NaNoWriMo. And of course, the dreaded New Year’s Resolution. I bet I know what…
Me? A Procrastinator?
By Kerry Schafer Procrastination. A fascinating topic — one I can spend hours discussing, analyzing, and lamenting as a lovely (and valid) evasion from whatever task I’m procrastinating from. Now, I know procrastination has a bad rap, and a lot of people think its roots lie in sheer laziness. This is a myth that…
Wrapping it Up—Finishing Up a Series
by Katriena Knights No matter how much you love a series, sooner or later it has to end. Well, this is true for television—in series fiction, you could probably keep going until you expire in front of your keyboard. However, there are plenty of reasons you might want to wrap up a book series, and…
The Worry List
The Worry List – by Kerry Schafer It’s hard to write when your head feels like the kitchen junk drawer. You know the one. It’s the place for random elastic bands and those little plastic things from bread bags. Coupons you’re going to use some day. The screw that inexplicably dropped out of the bottom…