Sometimes, I really agonize over what name I will give a character. Two factors are involved, especially in my historicals but it also counts for contemporary stories regionally; Is the name appropria...

It seems that I keep hearing a lot of, “I wanted to get this book out there” or “I wanted people to read this book.” I see a lot of focus on THIS book rather than THIS career. And I think writers need...

Are you writing a mystery to a niche market? You know what I mean. Maybe you’re writing a cozy about quilting, or dog breeding. In my case, I write Tudor mysteries, Sherlockian mysteries, and medieval...

Australian English has given birth to a flourishing fauna...

Sometimes I think there’s too much information these days. It’s a good thing that it’s at our fingertips, but winnowing out the wheat from the chaff is the hard part. When I started writing to sell so...

Writing Among Leaves and Cobwebs