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Guest Blog - Vikki Carter

Instead of you listening to my ramblings today, I'm giving over my space to Vikki Carter. Vikki is one of those wonderful people out there who is not only on her own writing journey but is choosing to do as much as she possibily can to help other writers on theirs. Among other things, she has a wonderful podcast that I've been fortunate to be on more than once (I'll be returning the favor - she will be my featured guest in January 2022 on Wrong Place, Write Crime) and offers resources for writer...

Summer Vacation

 Q: I recently heard a comment that the big publishers are trying to hold onto an old model of publishing that doesn’t work so well anymore. Is this true? Why doesn’t it work, and how could the model be changed?

- from Susan

Good question. I have no answers. As someone who’s always been traditionally published and bears some scars from that model, I hope someone comes up with solutions. I have an agent who believes in it, and friends who are doing quite well – some astonishingly well – so it can w...

Rip It Up and Start Again

Have you reread any of your books since they were published? How did you feel about them? Did you like them? Do you think you have improved as a writer? If you haven’t read any of them, is there a particular reason? What do you think you would discover if you did?

by Abir

Morning. Abir here. This is my first post on here for over a month. My last two slots were admirably tackled by my good friends Imran Mahmood and AA Dhand. If you get a chance to read their books, please take it, because they’re ...

Carrot or Stick? From James W. Ziskin

Have you reread any of your books since they were published? How did you feel about them? Did you like them? Do you think you have improved as a writer? If you haven’t read any of them, is there a particular reason? What do you think you would discover if you did?

From time to time, I re-read parts of my books after they’ve been published. Sometimes it’s to find a suitable passage for a public reading, and, other times, it’s to check on details I need for consistency in the series. But I also re-...

Going forward while looking back

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Have you reread any of your books since they were published? How did you feel about them? Did you like them? Do you think you have improved as a writer? If you haven’t read any of them, is there a particular reason? What do you think you would discover if you did?

by Dietrich 

I stayed with relatives a few years back, and the only reading material in the house was To Kill a Mockingbird, a dusty old Reader’s Digest, and my first novel, Ride the Lightning (God bless them for havin...

Digging for the Magic

 

Terry Shames here, answering our question of the week. Have you reread any of your books since they were published? Do you think you have improved as a writer? 
 I haven’t read any of my published books in their entirety, although I read them at least a thousand times when I was editing (okay, I exaggerate, but it seemed like a thousand). But I have read chunks of them. I usually have one of two responses: “Wow, this isn’t bad,” or “Wow, how did this even get published?” There’s more than one ...

The Rereads

Have you reread any of your books since they were published? How did you feel about them? Did you like them? Do you think you have improved as a writer? If you haven’t read any of them, is there a particular reason? What do you think you would discover if you did? 

Brenda Chapman

By the time I finish with a book, I've spent so much time on the editing that I can't stand to read it through again. This doesn't mean I haven't tried. After each Stonechild and Rouleau book, I've started to read the boo...

Live fully. Type honestly. By Josh Stallings

This week’s question is actually multiple nested questions, so I’ll break it out into parts…

Q: Have you written about any controversial issues?

Yesterday’s controversial is today’s milk toast. In 2010 when I wrote Out There Bad (Moses McGuire book 2) sex trafficking Russian and Ukrainian girls wasn’t on the mainstream news’ radar. I heard rumors about it while interviewing a Russian stripper, researching Beautiful Naked and Dead (Moses McGuire book 1.) The 3rd and final Moses McGuire novel deals ...

"Let's be kind to everyone" and other raging controversies.

TRIGGER WARNING: survivors of childhood abuse who are in danger of PTSD episodes -  1. You are amazing and your grit and courage light up this world. 2. Don't read this blog, or at least stop reading when I suggest you should, about two thirds through. Love and loud cheers, Cx

Q: Have you written about any controversial issues or created controversial characters in your books? Do you raise issues of conscience or do you steer away from moral questions?

Great question. Great pair of questions, actu...

Damned if you do...? by Cathy Ace

Q: Have you written about any controversial issues or created controversial characters in your books? Do you raise issues of conscience or do you steer away from moral questions?

I (usually) write about murder, so I’m only too well aware that every word I write is connected to a clear moral/social/ethical question about how one human being taking the life of another should be viewed, understood, and dealt with by society. That’s big. That requires the consideration of matters of morals, and cons...