David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

The Mask of Atreus

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

House of Cards

Of Birthdays and Taxes…

Jimmy Buffett has a song called “A Pirate Looks At Forty,” which is about an aging pirate trying to figure out where his life is headed as he slips into middle age.  Great song, and one I’ve been humming to myself all day.  See, I have a birthday coming up this week (Friday), and birthdays [...]

Writing Your Book, part IV: The Leading Edge of the Slog

It’s been a few weeks since my last post in the “Writing Your Book” series.  When we left off, we had done the prep work, found our voice, and had finally gotten down to working on the opening lines and pages.  At this point we’ve had some time to get to work on the meat [...]

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

I have three stories for you. I’ll give them to you chronologically.

1) My brothers and their families came to visit us for the holidays this year and the brother who is closest to me in age stayed at our house. He and I are very close, and we lead kind of parallel [...]

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 [...]

First Winner Announced!!

Hi, all:

I don’t know about my MW colleagues, but I’m taking this week off from posting.  I’ll be back next Monday to kick off 2010 with a new post, but in the meantime, I wanted to announce the winner of the first Magical Words book giveaway from last week.  After a random drawing (actually my [...]

The Ideal Writer

Last week, Faith wrote a terrific post titled “The Ideal Editor,” in which she offered her thoughts on what writers ought to look for in an editor.  One of our readers commented that he’d like to see her follow up this week with a similar article about agents, and it remains to be seen whether [...]