Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 36

The Images in My Head

 Q: What inspires you in your day-to-day life, something that influences your writing?

-from Susan

 

People. People and their quirks, their heroics, their embarrassments, their bonhomie or opaqueness, their pride, their charms, their prejudices…oh, just everything!

 

It’s not just the people I already know or have met formally. It’s the lumpy man in flip flops shuffling down Mission Street muttering to himself about an insult he wants to avenge, and the young woman waving a Starbucks coffee cup as sh...

Let's Talk Business: Book Launch Day, by Harini Nagendra

 What a perfect book prompt for today: 

As far as the business side of your own writing, what are you looking forward to in the near future?

Why perfect, do you ask? (or even if you don't...) 

Because today is pub day, aka book birthday, aka - the day that my new book releases!

That's right, book 3 in The Bangalore Detectives Club series - A Nest of Vipers - is out in bookstores across the US, UK and India today. It's my third published book of fiction, and my seventh book overall, but the feeling o...

Minding My Own Business from James W. Ziskin

As far as the business side of your own writing, what are you looking forward to in the near future?
Nothing. Rien. Nada.
I never look forward to promoting my books, probably because I don’t believe my meager efforts move the needle on sales or brand-building to any appreciable degree. Or maybe just because I’m tired. Schmoozing exhausts me, as do bookstore signings. All writers worry that no one will show up at our signings and we’ll be embarrassed as well as stressed out.
Furthermore, I have no p...

Keeping on the sunny side

As far as the business side of your own writing, what are you looking forward to in the near future?

by Dietrich

I’m looking forward to the launch of my next one, Crooked, published by ECW Press, set to hit the shelves on September 24th. The story’s based on the real life and crimes of Alvin ‘Creepy’ Karpis. Set in the 1930s, the story kicks off as Karpis joins forces with the infamous Barker brothers as they set on a trail of bank robberies, murder, and kidnapping on their way to becoming the ...

What Next?

 

Terry here, with our question this week: As far as the business side of your own writing, what are you looking forward to in the near future?Having just had my Bahamas thriller, (pictured, Bahama Mama Cocktail)  Perilous Waters come out on April 2, my world has been centered on doing the requisite (and enjoyable) interviews, blog posts, bookstore events, and searching for promotional opportunities. In addition, I’ve been reading books in preparation for panels at Left Coast Crime and Thrillerf...

Getting Down to Business

As far as the business side of your own writing, what are you looking forward to in the near future?

Brenda here.

The business side of writing is an ongoing challenge. My latest release Fatal Harvest hit the shelves April 15 with the launch at Perfect Books in Ottawa this Wednesday, May 1st. I've got several bookstore signings lined up through May and June. I've also accepted invitations to appear at events around the city. If you live in or near Ottawa, all my public events are updated on the mai...

How To VS Why To, by Josh Stallings

 Q: Do you have favorite craft sessions, or articles/books on craft that you return to for inspiration or help?

A: Craft questions often come down to how-to questions. I’ve spent much of my life thinking about creative processes in one way or another. There are many good books on the writing life, Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, Anne Lamott’s Bird By Bird, John Steinbeck’s Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters, are the first to come to mind. I have collected stacks of how-to books on w...

Jock Tamson's Bairns, by Catriona

I'm not answering the question this week, because I've got a book coming out next week and every writer gets a free pass for a bit of BSP when that happens.

First, isn't it pretty?

Details here

As you see, Dandy Gilver is in another heecher of a coat (I really should write "replica coat" into my contract) even if Alec Osborne looks a bit of a prat in his plus-fours.

Here's what it's about:

May 1939. As war hovers on the horizon, aristocraticsleuth, Dandy Gilver, wants nothing more than to keep her f...

Every book is a book on craft by Eric Beetner

Do you have favorite craft sessions, or articles/books on craft that you return to for inspiration or help?

This week’s topic is tricky for me because the simple answer would be to write No and then end it there. 

I’m certainly not going to say I am self-taught. I have taken English classes in school, screenwriting classes in college. Never a novel writing class, nor have I bought any guide books or craft books beyond Strunk and White and I still have to refer to it when I come across Farther and ...

Not A Birdhouse by Gabriel Valjan

 

Do you have favorite craft sessions,or articles/books on craft that you return to for inspiration or help?

I have never attended a craft session, nor have I paid much attention toeither articles or books on craft. Please let me explain. I have read articles bywriter friends. This blog is an example. I have visited Career Authors andJungle Red Writers, but I read for perspective not advice.

I equate books on craft with How To books, a manifestation of Self-Helpbooks, wh...