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What Indie Editors Need to Know About Indie Authors: the Webinar
I may not know how to navigate my own site (but thanks again to Nate Hoffelder for making it whole again!), but I'll...
100 Writing Days of Summer: Join Me in a Summer Writing Program and Heat Up Your Work in Progress
Would you like to be writing a novel or memoir this...
The Story Behind the Story: The Grain Merchant by Zara Altair
Zara Altair has created a protagonist who lives much longer ago and farther away than mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles or Cabot Cove. How does that sort of hero come to be? How different are his life and the murders he must solve from what is ordinary to us?
Story Behind the Story: The Way Home by Eliana West
A letter from the past will change their future… For this...
Story Behind the Story: Denied by Mary Keliikoa
Writers of mysteries have to calculate a lot of odds. What...
Story Behind the Story: Coming Home by Carmen Cook
Carmen Cook calls on her formative years in Montana to tell her story of a singing star coming home for redemption and love.
Story Behind the Story: The Steel Rose by Nancy Northcott
Historical fiction requires the ability to effectively...
Story Behind the Story: The Mermaid Mahjong Circle by Claudia Grossman
Claudia Grossman’s first novel is about being caught up in...
An Editor’s View of World-Building for Writers
Use Elizabeth M.S. Flynn’s world-building overview to populate your manuscript so that it will meet the editor and agent test.
Story Behind the Story: Crazy, Stupid, Dead by Wendy Delaney
The truth and memory are two important parts of all...
