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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Rum and Runestones w/stuart

David B Coe

Robin Hood

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

How Do I Write a Novel?

A guy the AKA (Gwen Hunter) knows, a lawyer who did some work for us back in the 1990s, asked me/us to read his book opening. Actually it was 16 pages of concept thrown onto the pages, single spaced, a lot for shock value. It read like a short story that needed a lot of [...]

Getting Published: My Mistakes I

A few weeks ago I was speaking to a Sisters in Crime meeting and I realized that my mini autobiography had morphed into a series of bullets that might be titled Don’t Do This: A writer’s Guide to Decades of Failure. As some of you will know, mine was a long road to getting published, [...]

Writing the Basics. Sentence Structure, Paragraph Structure and Why they Matter

My subject this week is paragraph and sentence structure. I know, you suddenly have visions of your 5th grade teacher, who looked a lot like Marge Simpson but without the cool style and hip clothes. The smell of chalk or water-based-board markers (pick your toxins: one has particulates that get in your lungs, one kills [...]

Terms and Definitions Every Writer Should Know

I had written an essay about expectations and their role in writing stories that I planned on posting today, but something happened that made me change my mind. NASFIC is this weekend, in Raleigh NC, and I was at a panel where an established writer started talking about cover letters. However, it quickly became clear from context [...]

Writing Fantasy: I can do better than that!

[Note: By this afternoon I'll be on a plane to the UK so I won't be able to respond to comments after noon Eastern. I'll do my best to jump back into the conversation later in the weekend.]

Stephen King has said that most readers have a moment early in life when they throw a book [...]

How Can I get Published? Right Now! (Confessions of the Unkind)

I’ve worked with a number of writers over the years, and all have been desperately eager to get into print, and the younger they were, the more desperate they were. The very youngest believed they were ready—“right now, right this minute”—to be published. Hearing that they were not ready, or that their writing needed a [...]