Lea Wait TIGHTENING THE THREADS revolves around Australian Sarah Byrne who now lives on the coast of Maine. Why did…

Susan Van Kirk My first Endurance mystery, Three May Keep a Secret, came out in 2014 to great reviews and…

Janice Law “Just sneaky-weaky over here and hold this, Francis,” Armand said. Of course, he said it in French because…

Michael Paul Michaud I want to thank B.K. Stevens for inviting me to take part in her innovative blog series…

D.E. Ireland First of all, thanks to B.K. Stevens for offering us a spot on this blog. Analyzing the beginning…

Shelley Costa Early on, while A KILLER’S GUIDE TO GOOD WORKS (Henery Press, September 2016), was a WIP, the Prologue…

Nancy Boyarsky “The Swap” is a mystery in the Hitchcockian genre of the innocent abroad, the naïve traveler who accidentally…

Christina Hoag The opening of a book has to accomplish many objectives, the chief one being to hook the reader…

Sally Carpenter Since my stories are always set in the past I always start with a header naming the location…

Helaine Mario As writers, we want readers to “fall into our story.”  The goal for all of us is to…

Maggie King Curiosity. That’s what keeps readers turning the pages. To that end I waste no time and get right…

In the bible, it says God created the heaven and earth. What a humongous contracting job it must have been…

Margaret S. Hamilton I spent three months last winter writing and revising a four-thousand-word short story, “Dressed to Kill,” set…

Karen McCullough Here is the first page of the print edition of my mystery novel,  A Gift for Murder: ***…

Amy Reade I spent a seemingly-endless amount of time on the first page of my new novel, The House on…