Dreams, Reality and Writing

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell There he is. Jimmy Bell, age 10, crack third baseman for the Red Sox of the Sunrise Little League in W...

Finding Your Readers

By Mark Alpert I feel reluctant to give advice on this subject, since I’m still figuring out how to do it myself. But I’d like to share w...

Reader Friday: Toot Your Horn!

Tell us about the project you're currently working on, and what inspired you to write it. Go ahead, today we want you to toot your own h...

Writing About Sex (Shh!) – Five Writing Tips

Jordan Dane @JordanDane   Purchased image from Fotolia A guy thriller author I know (who shall remain anonymous) said his most mortifying ex...

Info with Attitude

Today I welcome back to TKZ my friend and editor, Jodie Renner, to share tips on imparting factual information without it coming off like th...

The ebook future's so bright that I gotta wear shades

By P.J. Parrish I am constantly losing my sunglasses. This is a big deal when you live in South Florida where people wear them even in winte...

What is History?

By Clare Langley-Hawthorne So I have an idea for a new book and it takes place partly in the early 1980s and it suddenly strikes me that, th...

Let Your Characters Live and Breathe

James Scott Bell @jamesscottbell Among my books on writing is a 1919 title, A Manual of the Art of Fiction , by one Clayton Meeker Hami...

Amazon and Goodreads, Sittin' in a Tree...

I do not visit Goodreads as often as I should. There are readers out there who spend hours on it, and yes, I probably should as well, but I ...

Reader Friday: Desert Island Film Festival

Okay, you're stuck on that proverbial desert island. No one around, but for some strange reason there's a movie house and a trained ...

So much for women's lib...

by Michelle Gagnon While watching the season finale of GIRLS, there was a moment at the end where I was seriously tempted to hurl something ...

Know Your Audience

Nancy J. Cohen This past weekend, I had the privilege of speaking to the Southwest Florida Romance Writers in Estero, Florida. Up to 25 mem...