Category: fiction writing techniques
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The Father of My Child
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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The Art of Rewriting Fiction
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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I’m a winner!
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.
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It’s NaNoWriMo!
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
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A Family Story
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…
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The Business Girl
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…
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Almost Done Doing Mischief
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…