Archive for the ‘Guest Blogs’ Category

STARTING A NEW COZY SERIES: Targeting Your Market

Patty G. Henderson is an author, publisher and artist. An independent author, she launched her own publishing imprint, Black Car Publishing, but is now concentrating on mainly eBooks  with Savage Tiki Digi Books. She has penned four  Brenda Strange Supernatural Mysteries, The Burning of Her Sin, Tangled and Dark, The Missing Page and Ximora. Patty [...]

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December 18, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  7 Comments

The Appearance Of Character

Joseph Devon was born in New Jersey and currently lives in NewYork. He’s been a student, a nanny, worked at the Ground Zero recovery project after 9/11, and of all the things he’s created he is probably most proud of the character Kyo. He writes a blog at josephdevon.com and also enjoys photography, so he’s [...]

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December 16, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

In Which Charlotte The Cat Becomes A Star

Maryann Miller, author of mysteries, screenplays, and teen non-fiction,   stays active in a number of organizations including Sisters In Crime, The Trails Country Centre For The Arts in Winnsboro, Texas, and was a founding member of The Greater Dallas Writers’ Association. Maryann has been entertaining us with her stories about her feline family and [...]

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December 11, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  3 Comments

More Writing Myths for Busting

Barbara DaCosta‘s picture book debut, Nighttime Ninja, illustrated by Caldecott Award winner Ed Young, will appear in Fall 2012 (Little, Brown). Her story “Cabin 6″ appeared in Minnesota Crime Wave’s Resort to Murder (Nodin Press). Her website is http://www.barbaradacosta.com. How many of us have been held back by myths? Author Camille Minichino outlined four writing [...]

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December 9, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  4 Comments

Move Over, Men–A Salute To Military Women As Heroines

A journalism major, Linda Lovely has made her living as a writer, tackling everything from magazine features and ad copy to speeches and brochures. Her fiction manuscripts have made the finals in 15 contests, including RWA’s prestigious Golden Heart and Daphne du Maurier competitions and mystery contests such as Deadly Ink, Murder in the Grove [...]

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December 6, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  13 Comments

Trees, Christmas and Otherwise

A freelance editor and theological librarian, Nancy Adams writes mysteries and fantasy. Her short story “The Secret of the Red Mullet” is published in Fish Tales: the Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press, 2011), and her newest short story release is “Saint Nick and the Fir Tree.” When she is not writing or cataloging books for the [...]

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December 4, 2011   Posted in: Contests/Giveaways, Guest Blogs  10 Comments

Just What The Doctor Ordered

Larry Karp grew up in Paterson, NJ and New York City. He practiced perinatal medicine (high-risk pregnancy care) and wrote general nonfiction books and articles for 25 years, then, in 1995, he left medical work to begin a second career, writing mystery novels. The backgrounds and settings of Larry‘s mysteries reflect many of his interests, [...]

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December 2, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  4 Comments

Cyber-Sharing Real Life

Sunny Frazier, mystery author and acquisitions editor extraordinaire, is here today to share some news of a personal and painful nature. The Internet has done powerful things in our lives. We are connected and involved with each other although strangers in the physical sense. Lelia, who has supported me from the start of my career, [...]

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November 30, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  56 Comments

Mythbusting

Camille Minichino is the author of three mystery series. Her akas are Margaret Grace (The Miniature Mysteries) and Ada Madison (The Professor Sophie Knowles Mysteries). The first chapters of The Square Root of Murder (July 2011) and The Probability of Murder (due March 2012), are on her website: http://www.minichino.com Camille‘s blog— The Real Me There’s [...]

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November 29, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  6 Comments

True Confessions

Karyne Corum lives in New Jersey where she was born and grew up. She has written several winning short stories for online publications. Her supernatural short story, “Harbinger” was released last spring by Night Fall publications in the anthology, From Nightmares and Shadows. She is feverishly working on the second draft of her suspense novel [...]

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November 27, 2011   Posted in: Guest Blogs  9 Comments