Piper Bayard & Jay Holmes One of the most common mistakes in fiction is confusing which intelligence agencies have the power to do what to whom and where they have the authority to do it. Today, we want to clear up that confusion. While there are numerous military and civilian intelligence agencies, we’ll focus on […]

Janice Hardy I love the online world just as much as the next person, but writers already spend so much time alone--it's good to get out into the sunshine once in a while. There's a different energy you get from having a physical in-person conversation versus typing a conversation online, and that energy can be, […]

Kate Moretti Congratulations! You published a book. It’s out there in the world, all new and shiny, bouncing like the newborn its constantly compared to. The hard part is over, right? Um… well this is awkward. Maybe you watch Amazon rank or your Bookscan data or if you’re lucky, get numbers from your publisher and […]

Kathryn Craft Turning Whine into Gold The waiting was over. My agent called last Tuesday with word about my submission for novel number three: my publisher had passed. (Read paragraph break as needed time for truth of this to sink in.) We strategized. Then my agent said, “Okay Kathryn, well, I’d better go get a […]

Ellen Meister Churlish. Mean. Difficult. Insensitive. When I first got the idea to introduce the acid-tongued Dorothy Parker to social media, I had no idea I would soon be using those adjectives to describe Facebook. It started in early 2011. I was working on a new novel that resurrected the great 1920s literary wit as […]