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Alina Adams
Alina shares her writing expertise as a
mystery author. She discusses the following topics: "real life"
experiences & creating characters, conveying a message in your story while
entertaining, and picking the right names for your characters.
Erin Aislinn
Erin discusses her book
It Happened in Florence. She provides a terrific discussion regarding
using personal experience and research when researching location for your
story. In addition, she discusses her work with e-publishers.
Cornelia Amiri
Cornelia discusses the tools writers can use for
conducting their research. In addition, she highlights the pitfalls that
arise writing fiction set in an Ancient period.
As one of our Guest Columnists, you can read
other interesting articles by Cornelia at Guest Columnist Cornelia Amiri!
Deneen K. Berry
Whether writing a story, poem, or article, inspiration for an idea can come from
anywhere. Writer Deneen K. Berry took a
moment to share what inspired her to write her short story/essay entitled
"Dragonfly" and book "This Land is Your Land."
Julia Buckley
Julia provides an excellent interview. She discusses the
subgenre of Mystery & Suspense, specifically highlighting creating a
"page turner", how to "tell" the story, and the qualities of
the mystery genre. Also, she discusses benefits of membership in Sisters
in Crime and Romance Writers of America.
Luisa Buehler
Luisa discusses with writers how to build suspense in a
mystery. She also provides recommendations to writers who are considering
writing romantic suspense or mystery.
Barbara Cary - Writing Craft Interview
Barbara provides an extensive article that futuristic and paranormal writers
shouldn't miss. She discusses: how a writer crafts paranormal and/or
futuristic stories, the importance of "world" building, provides 3
excellent resources for creating fantasy and futuristic worlds, how a writer
uses dialogue to provide information about the story and provides recommendations
to writers wanting to write paranormal and futuristic novels.
Dyanne Davis
We share an excerpt from Dyanne's Romance Authors Corner
interview where she discusses the challenges of new authors and benefits
of the romance genre.
Dyanne shares an exciting and informative interview regarding her
recent honor of receiving the Emma at Romance Slam Jam on April 24,
2004.
Elisabeth Fairchild
Elisabeth provides an excellent, comprehensive discussion on how
a writer effectively incorporates historical elements into a story to make it
true to the period?
Elaine Flinn
Elaine discusses her approach of the writing process, what makes
writing a mystery/suspense/murder more complex than any other subgenre and
research.
Roz Fox
Roz introduces readers to how she makes her heroes believable
(3-dimensional). Roz specifically highlights elements of a character, how
she uses character development sheets, and her interest in reading action hero
books.
Deborah Hale
Deborah discusses how she derives her ideas for her heroes, heroines, and
plots.
Sabrina Jeffries
Sabrina provides a glimpse into the creation of villains and what she believes
makes the perfect villain.
Jennie Klassel
The
2002 Romantic Times/Dorchester New Historical Voice Contest romance author
winner Jennie Klassel shares some solid
recommendations for writers interested in writing historical romance. She
also shares an exciting, and inspiring, account of her experience entering and
winning the RT/Dorchester contest!
Bonnie Leon
Bonnie provides an excellent interview
discussing writing for the Christian romance market! She discusses the
unique benefits of the subgenre, techniques of incorporating a moral into the
story, writing historical fiction, series romance, and dialogue/character.
Michelle Larks
Michelle discusses e-publishing and the
benefits of owning her own
publishing company.
Lindsay Longford
In a new installment, Lindsay chats about her new book from Silhouette, Dead
Calm. She also shares some great advice for writers entering the business
of romance writing.
Lindsay also discusses pacing, the voice of a character, the uniqueness of the
romance genre and what makes a novel a "keeper" in her Romance Authors
Corner interview at Lindsay Longford.
Julianne Maclean
Julianne discusses how she derives her ideas for her heroes,
heroines, and plots.
D.D. Maloney
The author of Sunrise
on Kusatsu Harbor discusses how he conducted historical research for his
novel. In addition, he provides a discussion on how a writer can blend
historical information and a fiction story to make the characters and location
"come to life."
Erin McCarthy
Romance author Erin McCarthy discusses her recommendations for
writers and highlights several references to help you in your career. Erin
also strongly recommends joining Romance Writers of America www.rwanational.org!
Erica Miner
Erica discusses issues critical to good
writing. Topics reviewed are incorporating modern day characteristics into
fictional heroines, writing in first-person narration (Point of View), and
including an underlying theme in your story.
Madalyn Reese
Madalyn is a newly published romance author who provides
helpful recommendations to new romance writers. In addition, she discusses
her experience conducting "live" chats on-line.
Kelle Z. Riley
Kelle shares her expertise as a writer of on-line published
romances. She provides recommendations for authors writing for the on-line
market.
Selena Robins
Selena provides an outstanding interview as she delves into how she creates
three dimensional characters.
Jacqueline Seewald
Jacqueline provided an interview for our People You Should Know
category. In her young adult novel, Claire's Curse, she addresses issues
of interest to young people. For writers, she addresses how to handle
incorporating "issues" in your fiction.
Cindy Smith & Judy Turner
Outstanding interview on the collaborative
work of romance authors Cindy Smith and Judy Turner. Read about their journey to
working as a team to write romance novels.
Sloan St. James
Sloan discusses the challenges of writing
paranormal romance. In addition, she provides tips on using words and
action to create emotion in your story.
T.A. Stone
Todd addresses his writing process, dealing with writers block, and the mistakes
novice writers make. He also shares the craft of
creating top notch "cliffhangers."
Note: Check
out Todd's other articles as he is Head Writer for www.crimescene.com!
Denise Swanson
Denise talks about weaving clues in a mystery story, characteristics that make a
great villain and who to create believable mystery/murder stories.
Jill A. Terry
Romantic suspense author discusses how characteristics of her
heroes and heroines evolve. Jill also talks about how characters (and your
story) should be "real".
Robert W. Walker
Rob Walker is the master of writing suspense and has penned forty-four novels
and has taught language and writing for over 25 years. In an interview for
our Featured Author category, Rob provided a
detailed discussion about creating dialogue and "voice" of a
character. He also explains why dialogue is so important to building a
good story.
Margaret Watson
Margaret shares her thoughts of characteristics of heroes and heroines, weaving
emotion into a story, and how society and current events impact the novels
written today?
Shirley G. Webb
Shirley provides interesting insight into her Cherokee heritage and her passion
for "creating characters that will portray the stories and myths of my
Cherokee ancestors from being lost in the waves of time." Shirley
includes excerpts from her books.
Anne Whitfield
Anne discusses the reality of how characters "speak" to
an author. She also comments regarding the benefits of joining a
historical fiction critique group. (You can also
read Anne's contemporary short story romance Shedding Skin)
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