THE FINE ART OF STARING INTO SPACE
One question that every author faces is, “What’s your writing process? How do you do it?” When this question comes from young authors or would-be authors, the hope is that you will somehow give them some writing secret that’s been eluding them. They think that by copying the method of another writer, they will succeed. […]
FIRST LINES
I spend a lot of time on the first few pages of each book. If I have done my work well, those pages, and especially the first few paragraphs, will encourage the reader to keep reading. Here are some examples from my Simon Grave Mysteries series. 1: A Grave Misunderstanding “Her naked body was displayed just […]