WAIT! Don’t change that URL. You haven’t made a mistake, this really is the Good Girls Kill For Money Blog. Your normal Tuesday hostess, the beautiful and talented Laura Bradford, is busy trying to meet a deadline. Success comes at a price.
I’m also working against a deadline, so I thought I’d […]

As I reach the homeward stretch (I hope!) in the revision process for my latest manuscript I’ve been salivating over the prospect of actually having a moment to read a work of fiction that’s not mine!
I’ve just started a book for the book group I’m in called Fieldwork by Mischa Berlinski but as much as […]

I’ve got revisions on the brain after spending all weekend editing my latest manuscript and it’s got me obsessed with dialogue and, more specifically, how to make dialogue sound authentic in historical fiction.
The current book is set in Yorkshire and while I’ve visited the place I don’t have quite the insider knowledge that I had […]

I just returned on Friday from two weeks in Australia – one week in Melbourne and one week at the beach in Palm Cove – and was struck by how little Australia has changed in the eleven years (gulp!) we have lived in America. Sure, there were lots of new building and construction, new restaurants […]

Have you ever finished a book and thought – you know I don’t think any of the main characters ever ate, drank, slept or went to the bathroom…Or if they did, did it drive you crazy when all they ate was toast, all they drank was whiskey and they never slept unless it was to […]

One of the trickiest questions I’ve been asked on a panel is “what is the hardest thing to write? Dialogue, descriptions, sex scenes or violence?”
I think at the time I answered sex scenes (as I’m always in danger of getting a fit of the giggles if I get too graphic!) but in the midst of […]

By Kristy Kiernan
An open letter to my second novel, Matters of Faith, in which I attempt to right the grievous wrong I’ve committed in neglecting to trumpet its publication far and wide online.

Dearest Matters of Faith,
I am so thrilled that you’re out in the world! No, really, I am. I know that it seems as […]

By Christine Son
Writing is wonderful. Magical, even. With words, one can create imaginary worlds. Can delve deep into a character’s head. Can render a fictional scene from a true event that had gone horribly awry in real life. Writing can result in delicious, popcorn entertainment. And it can move a reader so that she recognizes […]

(Filling in for Diana Killian over the next month – keep your eyes peeled for me the next few Mondays here as well as every Monday on my own new group blog – Kill Zone – I’m Monday’s child now I guess!)
I was watching one of my favorite BBC series on DVD, North and South, […]

Norma always called me one of her boys.
No wonder. Her younger son was—and is—one of my closest friends. Growing up, I spent time enough at their family table to qualify as a dependent.
Through high school, college, marriage, and even after I had two kids of my own, I was still one of her […]