Here's the truth: Good book covers help to sell books. Not-so-good book covers don't.

Here's the truth: Good book covers help to sell books. Not-so-good book covers don't.

Summer is (sadly) over, my golf leagues have come to an all-too-soon end, and there’s a nip in the air, even the most glorious autumn days. That must mean it’s time for my Fall newslett…

Here's the truth: Good book covers help to sell books. Not-so-good book covers don't.

A Fatal Affair: The Murder of Helen Grier by Amanda Capper, Judy Penz Sheluk

A Fatal Affair: The Murder of Helen Grier by Amanda Capper, Judy Penz Sheluk

The young cashier peered down into the open register at the neat rows of bills and coins, the latter of which were all pooled loosely together in a space far left. From that morning he could recall th...

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One of the things I often hear from writers whose inboxes are crammed with incredibly personalized marketing or book club or editor impersonation emails–you know, the ones that make it seem the sender...

The doctor’s voice is the first thing I hear. “Welcome back, sleeping beauty. You’ve been out a long time.” When my eyelids manage to open, I don’t register the person I see as a doctor. He wears a gr...

I first started researching the 1900 Storm, the deadliest natural disaster ever to hit American soil, when I was 15 years old. In those pre-Internet days,

I'm going to let you in on a little secret: unless you're young and dewy-eyed OR spectacularly gorgeous, most female authors approach getting new professional

Clicking Our Heels – Anything Personal Incorporated Into Your Writing?

The Brown Hound Press Mixtape: S1 features all twenty of the Story Tracks included in Season One. Editor Josh Boldt pairs every story with a song based on a number of factors including lyrics, tone,...

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During the time I served as a school improvement consultant, one of the trendy instructional strategies was word walls. Whatever the subject, one could build

Do you post reviews on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Chapters.Indigo, Kobo or Goodreads? If you’re an author, the answer is probably “yes.” That’s because, as an author, you know the value of a revie…

I first wrote about A Fatal Affair: The Murder of Helen Grier in my January first Monday post (if you missed it, you can find it here). Since that time, my

It started with the grass clippings. I’d just finished mowing the front yard. True, the rows lacked the zigzag symmetry of the adjacent lawns, and the edges were a bit on the shaggy side—I hadn’t yet ...

I've always been envious of the authors who have the budget to get cool book trailers made. But as a graphic designer, I also kept having the delusion that I

A couple of months ago, I was approached by Barbara Bos of Women Writers, Women's Books. She introduced herself by saying she'd learned about me from

Today we welcome Mystery/Thriller Author Luke Murphy to The Stiletto Gang.

I’ve traveled to two graduations in the past few weeks, and it’s been loads of heart-warming fun—but tiring! I wonder how I traveled for work 50 weeks of the

Two things happened in the winter of 2003 that changed the course of my life. The first was learning my job was being eliminated. “Right-sizing the organization” was how the HR Manager referred to it,...

Beyond the Shinkansen window, lush green mountains and a vast ocean glisten under the blazing sun, rolling by like fast-forwarded scenes. The LED panel above the compartment door repeatedly displays “...