Norcal Chapter offers tutorial on Amazon Ads for Authors

An invitation for our members from the Norcal Chapter of Mystery Writers of America: Please join MWA Norcal for a Tutorial on Amazon Ads for Authors by Janet Margot. By the end of this session, you will: Know how to access ads, whether you’re traditionally or indie published Understand how ads intersect with your organic sales Have next steps to

SoCal MWA to hold virtual writing sprints Wednesdays in March

Each Wednesday in March, SoCal MWA is holding virtual writing sprints beginning at 7 p.m. ET (4 p.m. PT). All MWA members are invited. The hosts are Sarah M. Chen and Holly West, with occasional special guests. The sprints will take place on Zoom and last about 30 minutes. The hosts will speak for a few minutes, and members can

SinC’s Murderous March conference March 4-5 offers author panels, master classes

Do you want to take your writing to the next level? Get your writing mojo going again? Then join the Upper Hudson chapter of Sisters in Crime (SinC) on March 4 and 5 for this year’s virtual Murderous March conference. Murderous March features author panels, master writing classes with bestselling authors Catriona McPherson and Hank Phillippi Ryan, a “how to pitch” workshop with Edwin Hill, and

The mystery instinct: Using elements of the genre in all kinds of writing

Authors Leanna Renee Hieber and Philip Cioffari, authors who work outside the genre, explore the elements of mystery in all kinds of writing during the Oct. 6 chapter meeting at 6 p.m on Zoom. Leanna Renee Hieber is an actress, playwright, artist and the award-winning author of Gothic Victorian Fantasy novels for adults and teens such as the Strangely Beautiful, Eterna Files,

Spotlight on Hudson Valley: Third in series of meetings featuring chapter’s states and regions

Join us on March 3 for the third in a series of Zoom chapter meetings highlighting the states and regions of the New York chapter. The March meeting will feature a panel of four Hudson Valley writers discussing the use of location and atmosphere in their fiction as well as their other techniques they’ve developed for crafting an engaging mystery.

Red By Name, Fishy By Nature

If one thinks about it, a writer is a conjurer and a liar at heart. He or she is always observing and listening—casing the jointin a literary sense. Every snippet of overheard conversation, every situation is hoarded away like ill-gotten loot in the nether regions of a writer’s mind. It may lay dormant for a while, but the idea is

5 Useful Social Media Tools for Authors

When many writers talk about social media, they mention all the obvious platforms, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.  They’ll also talk about all the issues that they have with these.  Manual reposts across platforms, not enough time to work on all of them, and having to jump from one to the other to do anything as just a few

Sex and the Modern Mystery

My new mystery, Below the Fold, talks about the media’s obsession with covering murder cases filled with lots of sex – like Jodi Arias, Amanda Knox, Scott Peterson, Pamela Smart and right back to O.J. and Nicole. The book is set in a TV newsroom, and I spent many years as a journalist working in newspaper and television newsrooms. So

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