POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS

By Jeri Westerson The dreaded rejection. Does it ever end? Even published authors are not immune from rejection, I'm sorry to say. Bei...

by Sheila Connolly As I read my newspaper at dawn this morning (I'm trying to avoid the heat—five a.m. can be very pleasant, I'v...

by Sheila Connolly People who don't write won't understand why sometimes their writer friends go still, with a distant look in...

by Sheila Connolly Gee, thanks, Patricia Cornwell, for skewing the curve. Patricia Cornwell, successful mystery writer, lives in...

by Sandra Parshall This is one in a series of occasional posts about the mechanics of the novel-writing process. I’ve always resisted ...

by Sheila Connolly This week I heard Dennis Lehane speak to a packed hall—of librarians, not writers, at the New England Library Assoc...

Sandra Parshall (I'm at that hair-pulling stage again, feverishly working on last-minute changes to a new book for my editor and tryin...

Sandra Parshall A lot of novelists couldn’t live on their book royalties, but according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Co...

Sandra Parshall I was happy to hear Ian McEwan on the radio last week, describing his habit of saving deleted passages from his novels becau...

Toni L.P. Kelner I have two daughters, and I’ve often thought that writing is one of the best possible jobs for a parent. I work at home, t...

Sandra Parshall Sometimes I feel a lot like a chipmunk. No physical resemblance, of course – I’m nowhere near that cute. But while photogra...

Elizabeth Zelvin Not long ago I heard an eminent editor admit that in his publishing house, people refer without irony to “boy books” and “g...

Sandra Parshall Have you ever seen a farmer standing next to the broccoli in a supermarket, extolling the virtues of his product to shopper...

Elizabeth Zelvin I’m at a stage in life when about half my friends are reaching retirement age—specifically, those who have been doing the s...

By Lonnie Cruse Reviews...What do they mean? Readers, how important are they? Fifty-Seven Heaven is getting great reviews, which will certai...

Valerie Wolzien (Guest Blogger) The best advice you can give a writer is write every day. It’s great advice, but sometimes, I think, you ne...

by Julia Buckley I blogged at Mysterious Musings yesterday about my son's gift for writing. What I have realized recently is that, like...

Elizabeth Zelvin I first learned that there are only seven original plots by reading Emily of New Moon , my favorite book as a child. I fo...

Elizabeth Zelvin As a lifelong writer and a psychotherapist with many years experience, I found the perfect way to practice my profession a ...

Elizabeth Zelvin I write alone. When I’m at the computer, I enter a world in which any interruption is an intrusion. If I have a door to clo...