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by Jackie Houchin How short can you write a story? If you are doing NaNoWriMo this month, your goal is 50,000 words, about a 175-page book. How about only 10,000 words, or 5,000? 2,000? In Writer’s Digest, the September/October issue, author Ran Walker wrote a very interesting article…
by Debbie De Louise KittyKai’s Easter Mystery: A Cobble Cove Story by Debbie De Louise About KittyKai’s Easter Mystery KittyKai’s Easter Mystery: A Cobble Cove Story Cozy Mystery Story 4th in Story Series Publisher: Solstice Publishing Number of Pages ~55 Amazon and GoodReads Details Coming Soon During an Easter egg hunt at the Cobble Inn,…
by Alice Webb I liked how it began with the dismal Christmas party scene. Everyone was bored except the hostess. It made them all a suspect when the murder deed was done. Who actually did it and how? It was up to the elderly gingerbread-loving Alma to discover. JH
by Jacqueline Vick Believe me, you will understand the extra S’s in my headline, and the book title when you read this fun, mystery short story. Pet Psychic Frankie Chandler is invited to a Christmas Party in the Police headquarters of her new cop boyfriend. Feeling like a fish out of water among all…
Check out the diagram in this article – How Long to Write Famous Books Take a look at the shortest time (2.5 days for The Boy In The Striped Pajamas), and the longest time (16 years for Tolkien’s Lord of The Rings), and all those other books in between. Wow. If you are a writer…
By Dianne Ascroft, Ellen Jacobson, Sarah Biglow, Aubrey Elle, Beate Boeker, Adriana Licio, Vikki Walton, Angela K. Ryan, and Tamara Woods Mystery Follows Her A Multi-Author Cozy Mystery Collection By Dianne Ascroft, Ellen Jacobson, Sarah Biglow, Aubrey Elle, Beate Boeker, Adriana Licio, Vikki Walton, Angela K. Ryan, and Tamara Woods About Mystery Follows Her Mystery Follows Her – A Multi-Author Cozy…
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by M. Louisa Locke In the spring of 2010, just six months after I published Maids of Misfortune, the first novel in my Victorian San Francisco Mystery series, I published a short story in that series called Dandy Detects. Besides the fact that I wanted to give a…
Reviewd by Jackie Houchin Mystery Follows Her, a multi-author cozy mystery collection, provides a delightful way to discover new authors and book series with a minimum amount of time and investment. Inside this volume you will find nine short stories ranging from five to ten chapters each. At the end of the story is a…
via The 2020 Reading Challenge: 52 Books in 52 Weeks Will YOU try this? Time to start gathering books, making lists (Be sure to check your TBR pile first, you might have some in the different categories.) If you are not so enthusiastic….. I have other lists that feature a book a month (30 days),…
by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love, although changed and matured through…
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