Archive for the ‘Guest Blogs’ Category

A Good Month for a Mystery

Leslie Wheeler is a transplanted California who has lived in the Northeast for many years and has strong New England roots. A graduate of Stanford University with a master’s in English from UC/Berkeley, Leslie has taught adult education, worked as an in-house writer and editor for Barron’s Educational Series, then as a free lance writer [...]

August 31, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  8 Comments

Which Came First: The Root Stock or the Rose?

Donna Fletcher Crow is the author of 35 books, mostly novels dealing with British history.  The award-winning Glastonbury, The Novel of Christian England, is her best-known work, an Arthurian grail search epic covering 15 centuries of English history.  A Very Private Grave, book 1 in the Monastery Murders series is her reentry into publishing after [...]

August 24, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  10 Comments

The Personal Touch to Writing

Lorie Ham has been singing gospel music and writing since she was a child.  Her first song and poem were published when she was 13 and she has gone on to publish many articles, short stories and poems throughout the years as well as write for a local newspaper.  Lorie continues to sing and 4 [...]

August 20, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  7 Comments

Living Vicariously Through Books

Returning guest blogger, Kathleen Delaney, talks about why we read. As you read this, I’m touring around Alaska. I’ve never been there before, and thought I’d better get up there before the glaciers melted and the polar bears became extinct. So, when my daughter-in-law asked me to come along with her, my daughter, and their [...]

August 17, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  5 Comments

An Interview with Libby Fischer Hellmann

Libby Fischer Hellmann is the author of a number of mystery novels featuring characters Ellie Foreman and/or Georgia Davis and has participated in many short story anthologies.  A transplant from Washington, D.C., Libby has lived in the Chicago area over thirty years. She has a Masters Degree in Film Production from New York University, and [...]

August 10, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  7 Comments

Tales From A Young Author

Some time back, I posed a set of questions on an online author-centric group in which I participate, looking for a possible guest blogger.  I particularly wanted an ebook-only author or an author who used a pen name specifically for ebooks.  My interest was in why authors have chosen to go the ebook route and [...]

August 6, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  2 Comments

The Audacity of Authors

Returning guest blogger Sunny Frazier, whose first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, Fools Rush In, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association, explains why she might not be writing at any given moment. sunny69@comcast.net http://www.sunnyfrazier.com While attending a recent writers conference I overheard a woman say “That author’s ego is  [...]

July 27, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  18 Comments

Mining the Past

Carolyn J. Rose grew up in New York’s Catskill Mountains, graduated from the University of Arizona, logged two years in Arkansas with Volunteers in Service to America and spent 25 years as a television news researcher, writer, producer, and assignment editor in Arkansas, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. She has published a number of mysteries [...]

July 23, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

In the Moment

Suzanne Adair writes a mystery/suspense series set during the Southern theater of the Revolutionary War. Her first book, Paper Woman, won the 2007 Patrick D. Smith Literature Award from the Florida Historical Society. In 2009, Camp Follower was a finalist for both the Daphne du Maurier Excellence in Historical Mystery/Suspense Award and the Sir Walter [...]

July 20, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  12 Comments

Weighing Up Traditional Publishing & Ebook Publishing

Robert W. Walker is a graduate of Chicago’s Wells High School, Northwestern University, and the NU’s Graduate Masters in English Education program.  Rob has taught writing in all its permutations (“All writing is creative writing but not all writing sings,” he says.) from composition and developmental to a study of the literary masters to creative [...]

July 13, 2010   Posted in: Guest Blogs  13 Comments