Kirkus Indie: When a Review is Good for You

By: Kathleen Pickering   www.kathleenpickering.com Great news for the self-published author looking for a marketing boost above the pile: ...

Fan Fiction

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne If another person asks me whether I have read Fifty Shade of Grey I will scream (I haven't by the way) - thou...

Is "Show, Don't Tell" Overrated?

James Scott Bell 
 @jamesscottbell   There's a meme developing regarding one of the oldest of fiction writing commandments: Show, don’t...

Selling Those Used e-books

Have you heard of a company named ReDigi? It’s not exactly been in the headlines outside of music circles, but it has an interesting concept...

Drop that polysyllable!

Source: The Onion Last year The Onion referenced a new "feature" in Microsoft Word: a squiggly blue line which alerts the writer w...

Tag Line Haiku

by Michelle Gagnon Ah, the tagline...how I love it. For those of you who don't know, a tagline is that little nugget on a book cover (o...

Scene Scouting: On Location or Wikipedia?

From the ITW Debut Author class of 2012-2013, TKZ welcomes Brian Andrews as our guest blogger, here to discuss one of my favorite topics, re...

A collective Primal Scream

I have a close relative whom I've loved dearly for nearly half a century. It was only after we became social media friends, however, tha...

Villains in Fiction

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne In the aftermath of any tragedy it is human nature to seek out a rationale - a reason or some kind of motivation...

It's No Longer an Either/Or Publishing World and Other Notes from ThrillerFest

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Last week I had the honor of being the first author to final for an International Thriller Writers Aw...

We Will Read No Book Before Its Time

Have you heard about El Libro que No Puede Esperar ? That title is translated to English as “The Book That Cannot Wait.” Y’know that pile of...

Reader Friday: Questions for TKZ?

Hey guys, it's Reader Friday, and we want to know what's on your mind. Do you have any burning writing questions you'd like to a...

5 TIPS on World Building from Scratch

By Jordan Dane @JordanDane World building is a huge topic. I will only cover a fraction of it, but it’s a topic that’s been on my mind latel...

6 Tips for File Management

This weekend, we helped our daughter move into our condo. She put her furniture in storage and transferred the rest of her belongings to our...

The Great Summer Mystery: How to Open a Clam

by: Kathleen Pickering   http://www.kathleenpickering.com It’s my turn to blog today. Unfortunately, I’m away on vacation this week (and l...

Do we Really Want to Know the Alternate Endings?

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne News that we will finally get to see all of Ernest Hemingway's 47 alternate endings for A Farewell to Arms i...

Writing Advice from John Steinbeck

J ames Scott Bell @jamesscottbell What follows is some writing wisdom from John Steinbeck, via an old interview in The Paris Review . I'...