http://mitziszereto.com/blog/talk-radio-europe-interview-with-mitzi-szereto/

How I came to write my scandalous version of the Jane Austen classic!

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/does-my-countenance-look-fat-in-this-pride-and-prejudice-hidden-lusts/

Lots of book, publishing and marketing chat with Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts author Mitzi Szereto.

http://mitziszereto.com/prideandprejudicehiddenlusts/mitzi-szereto-interview-at-night-owl/

Two authors and a teddy bear go for a night out in South Florida, encountering beat poets, bubble tea, belly dancers and kava - along with a few margaritas along the way!

Check out the blog post at:

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/a-night-out-with-the-homies-on-hollywood-boulevard/

Mystery Fanfare, a fantastic blog by long-time crime fiction expert Janet Rudolph announced the nominees yesterday. The award will be presented at the annual Bouchercon mystery fan convention later this year. Macavity is named for T. S. Eliot’s cat in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.

Here’s the link and list–check it out:…

PSWA WRITERS CONFERENCE Today's Las Vegas Examiner.com Spotlight

Hey you mystery writers -- This is a great small conference at the Orleans Hotel.  I went last year and learned a lot plus meeting and networking with lots of teriffic people. Read the Spotlight and check it out. Public Safety Writers Association includes people who are currently in or retired from many aspects of safety like police, sheriffs, firemen, legal…

Tips for giving interviews

Every author will be faced with getting and giving interviews at sometime in their career. It comes with the territory and is quite important. Do you want to seem dynamic or ho-hum?

MORGAN ST. JAMES

www.morganstjames-author.com…

Help get the word out about Shaken: Stories for Japan, the anthology created by Tim Hallinan and 19 other writers to help raise relief funds for disaster victims in northeastern Japan. Read more about it here: http://jrlindermuth.blogspot.com/

P is for Pacing

Hey you fiction writers out there: have you ever felt the story was running away with you and speeding toward the conclusion or solutions too fast. Slowing things down in a manner the reader embraces is a wonderful tool. Check out today's Writers tricks of the trade: P is for Pacing Part II - Slowing…

If you haven’t heard about my soon-to-be released book Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, now’s your chance!

http://mitziszereto.com/blog/interview-with-mitzi-szereto-on-book-talk/

Crime novelists generally write a novel a year. It’s what publishers want. Some big writers—and I mean, 25 million books sold—have told me their publishers and agents complain that if they don’t produce a book a year their readers will forget them.

In the case of such writers, some of those 25 million may have degenerative diseases and others may be plain stupid, but in all…

When she was in her early twenties, Egyptian writer Ghada Abdel Aal began the complicated process of seeking a spouse. It involved meetings in parental living rooms over awkward glasses of tea. On one such occasion her potential groom spent his time screaming at a soccer game on tv. Another turned out to have a couple of wives already, and a would-be husband who was also a…

Today’s Writers tricks of the trade deals with tapping into your own emotions and experiences to write what your characters are feeling. This allows you to make a wide detour around clichés and create dimensional…