David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

On the Fifth Day

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

Urban Shaman

Bending before breaking

I have regretfully decided to take a leave of absence from Magical Words. I love the site, I love participating in it (oh, how happy I was to be invited! I wanted so much to be part of a group writing blog!), but with my work deadlines, I’ve been struggling to keep up with my [...]

Writing Your Book, part II: Finding Your Voice

This past week, Catie and I both began blog “series” in writing, and it seems that for this week and potentially down the road, there is going to be a fair amount of overlap between our posts.  Catie and I might reinforce each other’s points.  We might disagree.  That’s okay.  Getting more than one perspective [...]

Developing Your Voice: Part One

This is, I hope, going to be a several-part series on developing your voice as a writer. It stems from a lecture I gave at a workshop a couple of years ago, and I hope it’ll be of some use to the Magical Words readers.

What is voice?
Voice is the distinctive style that tells you who [...]

Writing Your Book, part I: Getting Started

So, you’re following a bit of the advice we offered last week here at MW, and you’re starting that novel you’ve been thinking about all these years.  Good for you.  We (Faith’s idea initially) thought it might be helpful for us to follow the novel writing process from beginning to end in our posts over [...]

MW Book Giveaway Week: the CE Murphy Version

This may be a bit of a catch-22 contest, as it presupposes you’ve read at least one of my books already. Still, it’s my contest and I’ll run it the way I want to, nyah.

The Prize: Your choice of either: 1. a signed copy of one of my novels, or 2. a PDF [...]

back to back

This is not a post of much content.

For the first time I can remember, I’m pretty much writing two books in the same series back to back. This is mostly because I did two major revisions on the first book and don’t have time to go write something else before the second book is due.

It’s [...]