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 Tracy Clark Hiya! Well, another Bouchercon is in the history books. This year’s Bouchercon, the world’s premier mystery conference and heck of a good time, was held in sunny San Diego, and 1,700 mystery and crime readers, writers, editors, agents, booksellers, and those who love them, came out...
By Alex Kava The reading experience is a very personal one. As authors, we transport readers to a different place and introduce them to strangers we hope they care about. And, if we’re lucky, we capture their attention and imaginations for 300-400 pages. But what about afterwards? We authors tend...
By Chris Goff I was recently asked to participate in a new promotional venture for authors: Discover the best books from Shepard for Authors. It’s a new website and the owner’s philosophy is that “when it comes to books, human recommendations are always better than algorithms.” Hard to argue...
