Making Time for Social Media
I never imagined how much time is involved in book marketing and building (and maintaining) your author platform. I work full-time and...
Good Mystery Series for Winter Reading
The Mystery Series I Wandered into Reading Several mystery series randomly fell into my lap lately, to my great satisfaction. Tired of...
5 Tips to Help You Craft a Police Procedural
Have you ever wanted to craft a police procedural? Here are 5 tips to help you get started.
The Murder on Tour Book Group
Murder on Tour is the travel-themed book group featured in the Hazel Rose Book Group series. The members each read a different mystery...
What I Found When I Went on a Manhunt
Manhunting - sounds like something I did in my earlier days before I found Hubby. But that's not what I was up to this particular...
Naming Your Baby
Choosing a book's title is kind of like naming your baby. You want something original but not weird, easy to remember, not too common,...
Deeper than Branding
Writers wear many hats these days. Today, I wrote one chapter of a novella I’m working on, and took a break, did some laundry....
ARTEMIS AND THE FEMALE WARRIOR: ARCHETYPES FOR A FEMALE SLEUTH
I got to wondering recently, if readers ever subconsciously associated the heroines/female main characters in novels, especially in...
9 Ways to Help an Author
The holiday season has begun. Today is Small Business Saturday and CyberMonday is fast approaching. If you like a book or an author, here...
The Appeal and Hazards of Mystery Series
As I write this, I am distracted because what I want to be doing is reading Maggie King’s new release Murder at the Moonshine Inn, Book...
