Let's Have Some Fun

Let’s Have Some Fun I am for a number of reasons happy to watch the month of August 2012 receding in the rear-view mirror. Let’s hear it for...

Reader Friday: What Series Character Do You Love, and Why?

One of our frequent commenters, tjc, offered up a good reader topic for our open forum: What series character do you love? What is it about ...

How Much Are You Willing to Share About Your Stories? Author Confessions Time

By Jordan Dane @JordanDane I’ve been an avid reader since I was a kid in elementary school, but as I grew older, I wondered how authors conc...

A Silent Society

Few people seem to make personal phone calls anymore just to say hello. In the old days, I would call my girlfriends and we’d spend hours ch...

What Lucy taught me about writing

By PJ Parrish It’s three in the morning and I can’t sleep -- again. My story is a giant hairball in my brain but it’s more than that. I am o...

That all important first line

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne Call me Ishmael. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must ...

I Believe I Am Really a Writer

James Scott Bell I am not a number! I am a free man!   – The Prisoner Back when I was learning this stuff, this writing ...

Lights, Camera...

Now it can be told. Some of you may be aware of the fact that I am a jack of some trades though master of none. One of those trades is actin...

Reader Friday: Stop It!

Welcome to Reader Friday, your chance to dive in and make your voices heard! Today we present an opportunity to share a pet peeve you see in...

Who Created Writers? The Man With One Black Glove

by Matt Richtel Today Pulitzer prize winning journalist Matt Richtel join us again for a fascinating real life story...read on ...

Fried catfish and grits

By Joe Moore First, some shameless promotion. This Friday, August 24, Amazon will feature two of my thrillers (co-written with Lynn Sholes...

Will Indies put an end to the "Death Spiral"?

Note : We're delighted to announce that writer Kristy Montee has joined the TKZ family. Kristy and her sister Kelly Nichols write as P.J...

Love of Reading, Love of Writing

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne My twin sons are avid absorbers of books and between what they can read themselves, what we listen to on audio bo...

“I” is for Integrity: Sue Grafton and the Self-Publishing Blowback

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell   One of those instant, internet explosions broke out this past week after the great Sue Gra...

Location, Location, Location

I fell in love with New Orleans before I ever stepped a foot into the city. James Lee Burke was the matchmaker, and all it took was THE NEON...

Reader Friday: Open Forum

It's Friday, and this week we're leaving the blog open for general discussion. What's on your mind, writing-wise? We'd love ...

TEN Simple Relaxation Techniques & Stress Relievers for Writers

By Jordan Dane @JordanDane Recently I served on a panel at the Romance Writers of America annual conference on the topic of "Care and ...