Because marketing and promoting our books has become largely our responsibility as authors, we spend a fair among of time doing what we call “BSP,” otherwise known as “blatant self-promotion.” But tod...

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Last weekend at the Montana Writers’ Rodeo, a small writers’ conference in Helena, Montana, a teenage girl asked my top tip for writers. The answer is easy: Learn to read like a writer. That …

Years ago, I attended a presentation on young adult fiction at a writer’s conference in which the speaker exhorted us to “get parents out of the way” and relegate them to the periphery of our stories....

Early in my career, I was exposed to the element of society that looks down on people whom they consider to be beneath them. I was at the beck and call of people for whom my name was irrelevant, and t...

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I’ve had the pleasure of “speed-dating” to pitch our books at Malice Domestic with mystery author Darlene Dziomba whose Lily Dreyfus series is every bit as delightful as she is! It’s a pleasure to welcome Darlene back to my blog as she writes about the importance of community as…

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Four years ago, I attended my first Malice Domestic conference. I had just published Clues From The Canines, and I was ready to make as many fans as possible. I received an email informing me that I, ...

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Standing firm in your convictions is not easy. As I navigated the dizzying maze of publicity and marketing for my work, I held fast to the belief that what mattered most was a solid foundation of mate...