How to Write a Novel In Nine Months or Less
By Liz, east of Hartford, still wishing for sun and warmth I am (still) working on the third book in the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries. My deadline is May 1. At…
Category: Craft
Paths to Publication Report
Edith here, hoping for a warmer spring than we’ve had so far. Sisters in Crime New England sponsored an all-day workshop on Saturday about the many paths to publication. Four…
Setting as Character: Location, Location
By Edith North of Boston They say that a setting can be a character in a book. I tried for that in Speaking of Murder (Barking Rain Press, September 2012,…
It Takes a Decade
By Edith Maxwell North of Boston I am so pleased to have my short crime story, “The Stonecutter,” in the new Fish Nets anthology (Wildside Press, April 2013). I wanted to…
Muddling Through the Middle
By Sherry Harris Recently my fellow Wicked Cozy Author Barbara Ross posted on Facebook that writing the middle of her book was like pushing a peanut uphill with her nose.…
Why Am I a Cozy?
Everyone has a different definition for what a cozy mystery is. But this weekend, I spent some time with my Wicked Cozy sisters, talking about what made a cozy “work”…
On Secret Lives
One of the best parts of being a fiction writer is imagining people’s secret lives. Even before I started writing fiction as an adult I was entranced by other peoples’…
The Wickeds 