Novel Basics: An Illustrated Guide to Writing a Novel Have you always wanted to write a novel, but haven’t even known how to start? Or perhaps you’ve written short stories, but the sheer size of the novel scares you off. Maybe you have a novel you drafted twenty years ago tucked away in a drawer […]
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I am very happy to report that I finished editing OLD TIME STORIES, my new collection of six mystery short stories and eleven nonfiction pieces about the people and places that inspired the stories. And this past Monday I posted the digital version on Kindle Direct Publishing in plenty of time for the 8/29/18 publication
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Right now I’m putting together a collection of Calendar Mystery short stories that go before, between or after the first three novels in the series. These books, January Jinx, Fatal February, and Mischief in March, feature business girl Minty Wilcox and dashing detective Daniel Price from newly met to newly wed and beyond in Kansas
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Lately, due to back pain, I’ve gotten behind on my current Work-in-Progress, a historical mystery short story called “Detectives Honeymoon.” Now, back pain isn’t unusual for indie authors. Lots of you out there are indie authors, so you probably know what I’m talking about. But my recent back pain isn’t the typical lower back pain
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Right now I’m working on a new short story called “The 9th Street Gang,” part of my calendar mystery series set in Kansas City starting in January 1899. Here’s the cover for the story that about twenty of my friends and kin helped me with. Now I’m revising the story itself. And it’s taking me
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Here I am, looking properly smug for completing my #NaNoWriMo2017 project, a very rough first draft of The Spoils of War, a mythic fantasy novel.
Just a quick note to say that I won’t be around a lot November 1 through 30 because it’s National Novel Writing Month. Best, Juliet
A Family Story Part of the backstory for my calendar mysteries explains how Minty Wilcox, her mother, and the two youngest members of the family came to live in Kansas City. This story focuses on Minty’s youngest brother, Eddie, born with a clubfoot. When Eddie was around six or so and going to a country
Earlier this year when I was working on Mischief in March, the third book in my calendar mystery series, I decided to find out if my heroine, Minty Wilcox, could have read the Ladies’ Home Journal in March 1900. So I launched a Google search and found out that sure enough she could. In doing
WiP Report # 19 This morning—I’m very pleased to say—I finished the current draft of Mischief in March, the third in my Calendar Mystery series featuring mystery and romance in Kansas City, a place that could get downright deadly a hundred years or so ago. January Jinx, Fatal February, Mischief in March, nine other novels
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