I was a senior at Lordstown High School in the Youngstown-Boardman area in northern-eastern Ohio when I got my first paid writing assignment. You could say this assignment was what put me on my current path of writing about chaos, deception, and mayhem.
As the author of three murder mysteries, I wish I could tell [...]

The basics behind writing books haven’t changed even if our methods have. When you write a book, unless you are an expert on the subject, you will need to do some research. With seventy-five percent of American households having internet connect, the majority of research is done on the internet. This could be a good [...]

Welcome guest, Kate Carlisle. A lifelong love of old books and an appreciation of the art of bookbinding led Kate, New York Times bestselling author, the Bibliophile Mysteries, featuring rare book expert Brooklyn Wainwright, whose bookbinding and restoration skills invariably uncover old secrets, treachery and murder. Kate is a member of Sisters in Crime, [...]

Welcome guest, Penny Warner, author of How to Host a Killer Party and Ladies’ Night
As a mystery writer, I often heard the advice, “Write what you know.” It just so happened that I was looking for a fresh protagonist for my new mystery series and realized this is exactly what I would do—write what I [...]

This is my very first blog, so be gentle… the experience of writing this novel about a serial killer was interesting, because I wrote most of it in a secluded cabin in the woods of Ulster County.
My “security” consisted of a feeble hook and eye lock that a five year old could pry off [...]

Marilyn is an award winning author of over twenty five books, mainly mysteries. She’s a member of three chapters of Sisters in Crime, on the board of the Public Safety Writers Association, a member of Epic and MWA. She lives in the foothills of the Southern Sierra in a town much like the one where [...]

Thanks, Jeff, for hosting me at The Little Blog of Murder. I’ve always loved the name of this blog.
I thought I’d share my thoughts about libraries. Here goes:
LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY EVENTS – Do They Help Or Hinder Sales? By Morgan Mandel
I’ve loved libraries for as long as I can remember. When Dad took [...]

Today’s guest is Emilie Richards who writes both women’s fiction (her newest is Happiness Key) and the Ministry is Murder mystery series.
A serial killer? Well, I didn’t become one, of course. Not exactly. But lately, and I have to admit the following part is true, people are dropping dead all around [...]

Rhys Bowen here. Thanks for inviting me, guys. I’m putting on my
tiara and raising my teacup to my lips in preparation to speaking
about my heroine, Lady Georgiana.
A question I am frequently asked is how I manage to do my royal
research for my Royal Spyness books, featuring Lady Georgie, 34th in
line to the throne, but penniless [...]

Austin S. Camacho is the author of four detective novels in the Hannibal Jones series and two novels in the Stark and O’Brien adventure series. Active in several local writers’ organizations, Camacho is the current president of the Northern Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Writer’s Club. By day, Camacho is a public affairs specialist for [...]