Victorian Dress Reform
Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919) yearned to become a physician and to work as one, but, of course, in a sad story we’ve heard too many...
A Cure for Writer's Block
I’ve had a hard time writing my ninth novel, the fifth in the 90s Club cozy mystery series. I’ve felt stale and bored and a bit...
Pitfalls in Writing Police Procedurals
In January, the Chessie Chapter of Sisters in Crime presented a panel of former law enforcement officers who write mysteries and...
On Banning Books
In 2019, the total number of books published in the U.S. exceeded 4 million—including both self-published and commercially published...
What Makes Marketing Easier?
We’ve heard that the three businesses people dream about owning are a restaurant, a bookstore, and a B&B. There’s no way I’d ever want to...
What I’ve Learned Writing Mysteries
Mystery authors often joke about what someone might think who happened to see the cache of websites they’ve visited on their computers....
Lost Treasure Tales
When I was in eighth grade, my parents gave me a book called Lost Treasure Trails by Thomas Penfield. I was enthralled as I read of...
Tougher Jobs Than Writing
Spring is here and despite the pandemic, some of us are thinking about where we’ll go for summer vacation. Travel is enlightening and...
Critique Groups for Better Rewriting
The important fact to embrace as you join a critique group is to know without equivocation that you are a writer and like all writers,...
Plotting to the End
One writer in my critique group wrote wonderful first chapters in a unique voice with humorous characters. All of us loved his writing....
