I had an interesting question at my recent talk: How do you know how much research to do when you’re putting your setting into place? If you’ve been writing for a while (or if you’re just interested in learning), you know what a rabbit hole research can be! You start out trying to find what…
My talk seemed to go over well today. At least, most everyone seemed interested and I got some good questions afterwards and sold some copies of the book, so that’s great. I think, after it’s all said and done, though, that I’ll change things up and restructure the lecture into a participatory event where the…
I’ll be giving my little class next week: a behind-the-scenes look at a mystery story. I’ll also be selling copies of Carolina Crimes: Rock, Roll, & Ruin. Here’s what I have so far: I’m going to toss in a little behind-the-scenes information about how I personally write my stories, but this will be the gist…
Time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group Post! February 1 question – If you are an Indie author, do you make your own covers or purchase them? If you publish trad, how much input do you have about what goes on your cover? I’m pretty much traditionally published, but with small presses. My publisher ran…