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By Trista Herring Baughman Hello, Dear Readers,  Spooky Season is my favorite season–the (sometimes) cooler weather, the fresh, crisp air, the smell of bonfires and […]

Hello, Dear Readers, I’ve taken several writing classes recently. A lot of them cover the same topics in similar ways. But just when I think […]

An Interview by Deborah L. Brewer A debut novel, like other firsts, requires the mastery of various skills along a steep learning curve, including language, […]

By Laura Hayden “To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.” Gelett Burgess (1866-1951) Webster defines humor as “that which is comical or amusing.”  […]

By Deborah L Brewer “…kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.” Thus, Stephen King […]

By Monique Bos One of my fiction teachers observed a strict “rule of three” about descriptions. Writers, he believed, should provide three—no more and no […]

By Catherine Dilts Gems I gleaned from workshops I attended at the 2024 Pikes Peak Writers Conference. It’s impossible to capture all I learned at […]

An Interview by Deborah L. Brewer When I think of cozy mysteries, I often think of bookshops, tea time, quaint towns, and cats. But cozies, […]

By Johnny Worthen My academic career was not in writing but in criticism. When I turned my powers to evil and became a writer, I […]

by Sam Knight Show, don’t tell, they say. And then you ask what that means, they ramble off into infinity, citing works and authors you’ve […]