Sharing Options Female Investigators of the 1950s by Delphine Boswell A common misconception is to consider the profession of private investigator as a man’s job rather than that of a woman. Minds automatically conjure images of fictional characters seen on TV or the movies such as Sherlock Holmes, Lieutenant Columbo, or Perry Mason. Statistics from […]
Finding Readers and Thinking “Soft Sell” In Killer Nashville Magazine (Sept. 2021), I gave you a list of free digital tools to audit your platform to do the following: Control and adjust your brand as readers’ desires change Build in a “soft sell” to target Let’s expand on that work by visualizing a marketing hub […]
I’m often asked how a Christian novel is different from general market novel, and my response is always the same. Novels are about strong characters who have a problem to solve. It’s all about character. But there’s more. A Christian novel is a story in which one or more of the characters solve their problems […]
When I was in my twenties, I once found myself at 30,000 feet sitting in a luxurious seat of a 4-person Learjet bound from New York to Milwaukee. Across, and facing me, sat a person in a suit and tie who was in charge of security. To his left was a gentleman named Rod Thorn, […]
“Huh, no kidding.” I think back in my mind’s Rolodex of cases worked and can’t remember having one of these before. I click ‘add to cart.’ “The hose draggers already come in with their little machines and meters and make sure the air is good to go?” As I say it, I figure the officer […]
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” —T. S. Eliot One year’s ending shepherds in the beginning of another year. We’re ending and beginning our writing life all at the same time. Writing is a passion, […]
“The nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and kept on writing.” —Stephen King When you started writing, did you think it would answer all your prayers and you’d live happily ever after? Did you dream your mystery […]
September, 1983, a police officer stops to examine a woman’s blouse he finds along the side of the road beside a stone wall. Beneath the blouse he finds what appears to be a decomposing human body wrapped in several layers of trash bags. When Dr. Frederick Zugibe, the medical examiner in Rockland County, New York, […]
The one thing as a fiction writer to understand and accept: in reality, you have very little control over how many people will pay for your writing, or how many readers you will get. None. Advertising, quality, being deserving, none of it is a guarantee of sales. If your book sells, great, but even some […]
Sharing Options Killer Nashville Interview with 2022 Guest of HonorHank Phillippi Ryan KN: First, we loved Her Perfect Life. What sparked the idea? HPR: Oh, thank you! That is the best thing an author can ever hear. Here’s the beginning of the idea: When I worked in Atlanta, in the 80s, I was anchoring the […]