STROKE OF GENIUS CONTEST Want to see your name on the acknowledgment page of Emily Bryan’s next book? Here’s your chance! Emily is giving her readers an opportunity to name...

By Ciara Gold  So, what prompts an author to write historicals?  Is it their love of research? Is it a secret desire to live vicariously in the past? Perhaps it’s...

by Jeannie Ruesch Along the way to publication of my first novel, SOMETHING ABOUT HER, rejection was a part of the game.  After the second agent-requested-partial-turned-rejection,  I found myself turning...

A few weeks ago on SHADOWS FALL N FRIENDS fellow writer, C. J. Lyons and I discussed the strange process of choosing a title.  When you go to your bookstore...

Do you put people you know in your books?  Most writers are asked that question. Robert McKee (author of Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting) talked about...