Welcome to the second part of our discussion about promoting your book! In the previous blog, authors Anne Marie Duquette, Elizabeth...

Tell the World! Your book’s ready to go. The writing and rewriting, the careful reviewing, the professional editorial work—it’s all done....

“Love me, love my dog—and my cat, horse, rabbit, parrot…” For a writers’ conference some years ago, an award-winning author, Kate James,...

This discussion is based on a panel author Geri Krotow and I did at an RWA conference in 2013. With regard to cliché things haven’t...

In a previous blog, I shared my belief that one of the great pleasures of genre fiction is a story’s background. Its setting. That can...

Our previous blogs have been more focused on theory and story issues. This time, we thought that, based on our combined experience and...

Do you remember opening high school essays with a definition? It worked back then so why not now? Let’s start with that. Genre refers to...

I often say that setting—a strong and vivid sense of place—is one of the particular delights of genre fiction. Needless to say, it’s...

Begin as You Mean to Go On. That’s usually good advice in life—and in writing. Be Consistent A noticeable (and unintentional) discrepancy...