Booklover’s Bench authors welcome this week’s guest, Fiona Quinn. Be sure to read the entire post to find out how to win a copy of her newest book, Weakest Lynx. I like Mary Sue – Don’t You? I am getting ready to visit Richmond, Virginia for RavenCon where I’ve been invited to sit on the […]
Nancy J. Cohen Readers often want to know if writers use personal experiences in their stories. “All the time,” I answer them. Anything that happens to us becomes fodder for a novel. We could be inspired by a character we meet or by a situation that happens to us. In Hanging by a Hair, Marla […]
Maggie Toussaint Research: The interview that wasn’t In the course of writing fiction, I’ve interviewed policemen, firemen, arson investigators, fishermen, boat captains, boat mechanics, shooting instructors, poison ladies, florists, newspaper editors, artists, accountants, the Coast Guard, and more. I’ve bought books on each of these subjects and other crime-related topics. But . . . there […]
