BY Z.J. CZUPOR ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to...
By Tori Eldridge “Welina mai iā kākou!” This is how I welcome my readers in the preface to my new mystery series debut. What a joy it is for me to finally come home with my new protagonist, Ranger Makalani Pahukula, in Kaua‘i Storm. All through my writing career, people have pressed me to write a...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in March... Jenny Milchman began March with a question: What if we lived with abandon and let the river take us? She did exactly that on a recent vacation to sliding rock! ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings...
By Tracy Clark Just checking in. I’m neck-deep into writing my next Det. Harriet Foster novel. Due date looms. But with the writer’s life, there are a lot of moving parts to a writing career – promotion, marketing, reader outreach, and a lot of talking about what you’re doing, how you do it, and...
by Z.J. Czupor ZJ Czupor's On Tour with Dead Writers brings us clues to a mystery author each second Tuesday of the month. Dust off your investigative skills and send your answer to mysteryminutecontest@gmail.com by the 20th of the month. From the correct responses, one will be randomly drawn to...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in December... A great writer knows when to deliver a juicy plot twist. But for one author, the biggest twist of all is her own murder. That's the plot of J.T. Ellison's new novel, which we revisited in our new...
By Tracy Clark Why do I love book series? Simple. I like to see how the worm turns. I like to follow characters and see how they get on. I’m curious that way. When I picked up my first Sue Grafton novel, A is for Alibi, and chuckled at the fiercely independent Kinsey Millhone as she went about her...
It’s a Rogue Roundup: See what we Rogues discovered, researched, and talked about in November… Death came knocking at our door in November with ZJ Czupor's monthly installment of On Tour with Dead Writers. When our dead writer first wrote his famous detective's first story, he was paid the measly...
By Tosca Lee I joke sometimes that according to the adage that “writers write every day” that I am not a writer. One of the reasons social media is special to me—I mean aside from its profound helpfulness when it comes to procrastination—is that it has brought me closer to my readers. Not every...
By Tosca Lee I came back from ThrillerFest just a few weeks ago and while I was there to teach at CraftFest, panel, sign books and present awards, let’s be real… I was also there to fangirl. That’s possibly the coolest part of this writing gig, getting to go where the heroes are, get books signed,...
