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How To Tell SomeoneThat Their Baby Is Ugly“I love criticism just so long as it’s unqualified praise.” — Noel Coward By PJ Parrish So your friend whips out the phone and before you can...
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How Critical Distance Improves WritingThe conversation about critical distance doesn’t come up often in writing circles. If someone does raise the point, critical distance is usually...
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Get That To-The-Bone Feel For Your Charactersby James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Some years ago, Kill Zone emeritus Robert Gregory Browne wrote this: If my lead character is a divorced father...
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The Big (or Little) ScreenBased on my experience, when a collection of writers gather around drinks or the figurative campfire talking about books, current projects, and...
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Reader Friday: Three Things to Forget AboutI tell would-be writers that there are three things to forget about. First, talent. I used to worry that I had no talent, and it compelled me to...
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Prologue or Chapter One?By Elaine Viets TKZ has had many discussions about whether you should start your novel with a prologue. Readers and editors both have mixed...
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An Interview with Narrator Steve MarvelAn Interview with Narrator Steve Marvel Terry Odell I’m pleased to have Steve “Captain” Marvel, the narrator of my Mapleton Mystery series, as my...
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First Page Critique – Special Agent Jonas StoneBy Debbie Burke @burke_writer Welcome to another Brave Author who’s submitted a first page for critique. The story is untitled so I used the...
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Landing the Novel – The Story of the Gimli Glider“If you can walk away from a landing, it’s a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it’s an outstanding landing.” – Chuck...
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Put Some Saga in Your Storiesby James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Around 850 A.D. a crew of Scandinavians was sailing around and got off course. They saw some land, and decided...
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Three Different Sorts of ReadersI’m at the tail end of revising my cozy mystery (AKA “crunch time”), having gone over the helpful feedback from my beta readers, and preparing the...
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Reader Friday: The DifferenceWhen my last novel was published, I received from the publicity department one of those biographical questionnaires sent to authors these days....
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Into The BreechBy John Gilstrap During a book signing event a couple of weeks ago, a gentleman named Don handed me his card and introduced himself as an official...
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Mystery Cover Trends:The Bold And The BeautifulBy PJ Parrish Maybe it’s my art background — or more likely because I write books that I hope get noticed — but I really pay...
