The Cycle of a Book plus #giveaway
News Flash: Laurie Pinnell is our lucky winner! Congratulations, Laurie, and please check your email. Edith/Maddie, usually writing from north of Boston. But today I’ve accompanied Hugh to Mass General…
Category: editing
Beginning Again
Edith/Maddie here, writing, still, from north of Boston. For the thirteenth time – well, fifteenth, if you count novellas – I am beginning to write Scone Cold Dead, a new…
Revising a House
Jessie: In New Hampshire where the leaves are turning and woodsmoke drifts through the morning air. Did you have strange, and or, disappointingly tedious weather this summer? Here in New…
Wicked Wednesday- Prose and Cons
Jessie: Enjoying the first blooms of spring! As we continue our discussion of prose and cons I offer up this quote by one of my favorite authors, P.G. Wodehouse: “Always…
Ask the Expert- Editor Lisa J. Jackson
Jessie: In New Hampshire feeling amazed that the temperatures are above freezing! I meet Lisa several years ago at the New England Crime Bake. Julie introduced us and we have…
A Daunting Task
Edith here, in New York City with the Wickeds! (Full report on that next week.) Like many of us, I send my manuscript to an independent editor for a developmental…
The Power of One
Hello, Wicked People! Susannah/Sadie/Jane here, watching the leaves begin to change… The other day something occurred to me. And it freaked me out a little, in the way that profound…
The Wickeds 