Writers In The Storm welcomes Kara Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo to our family of bloggers. Kara is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than sixty novels of romance and romantic suspense for Harlequin and Random House. You can read Kara’s blogs here at WITS on the first Friday of each month. She’s starting out with […]

By Rob Preece While sitting at an autographing at the Romantic Times Convention several years ago, a woman hurried up to my table. I gave her my best “I’m-safe” smile. The signing hadn’t gone well so far—could I be on the verge of something good? “I have to tell you,” she said… Tell me what? […]

By Sharla Rae Readers choose a book in one of three ways: They like the author, it was recommended or they read the back cover blurb. After people-watching in Barnes & Noble, I’d venture to say most books are chosen by the last method. For people ordering e-books, blurbs are especially important. That makes blurb […]

Welcome to Last Fridays with Naked Editor Tiffany Lawson Inman on Writers In The Storm!      Right now my physical self is driving up a Colorado mountain to Margie Lawson’s 5-day Immersion Master Class to be her co-instructor doing some micro and content editing, step-by-step editing fight/action scenes, and not sleep-at-all.  This ain’t no retreat! […]

By Laura Drake "The secret of good writing," says William Zinsser, "is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components." This is one of the first lessons I tried to tackle as a writer. And I needed to. I’ve been known to get a bit carried away with the words, if you know what I […]