David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

A J Hartley

Act of Will

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

C E Murphy

Thunderbird Falls

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 [...]

Holes in the Day

I’ve been taking y’all with me through the early creative process of writing a book. I’m not saying that anyone else will pass through these same steps or in this same order, but that some of the steps of creativity may resonate with you. And I’m late posting today because I’ve been rewriting and have [...]

Screenplay Writers and Playwrights

My AKA (Gwen Hunter) is writing a book with a co-writer pal, who is also a screenplay writer and a playwright. He has never had a book published and frankly never knew why until we started hanging out. I’ve worked with screenplay writers and playwrights (hereinafter to be referred to SPWs) over the years and the [...]

Mixing Art and Politics

Let me start by saying that today’s post comes to you courtesy of my brand new iMac with its very impressive 24 inch display. (Overcompensating?  No, why do you ask….?)  I like my new toy very much, and as I grow more and more used to it I like it even more.

A couple of weeks [...]