by Linda O. Johnston I’m delighted to be back for another guest blog on Writers in the Storm.  Once again, I’m blogging about cozy mysteries. Do you know what makes a cozy mystery "cozy?" Well, they all star amateur sleuths, for one thing.  There are a lot of Jessica Fletcher types of characters out there who just […]

As a corporate software trainer, I’ve got to be ON each day I’m in the classroom. It doesn’t matter whether I was up all night with a teething baby or if my best friend and I had a fight. Nobody cares about those things when they come in for a day of Word or Excel […]

I suppose everyone has a favorite Christmas. The year they got the bike they had so wanted. Or maybe a Chatty Cathy doll when those were popular. My favorite Christmas was the year my daughter Carolyn was born. My husband and I moved to Anchorage, Alaska when we were first married. He was a civilian […]

by Laura Drake Tis the season.  Bell ringers with kettles stand outside stores, vying for territory with candy sale fund-raisers. We’re receiving charity requests every day in the mail, and at work, we’re adopting needy families for the Holidays. Sometimes it seems easier to shut the door and close yourself in a nice quiet writing room. But […]

by Jenny Hansen Today, I’d like to introduce you to the late, great mystery and TV writer, Stephen J. Cannell. Trust me, most of you have watched his shows. As many of you know, all of us at Writers In The Storm are blessed by geography to live near an active RWA chapter that gets incredible speakers. Several […]