Supporting My Local Retailers vs. Convenience by Debra H. Goldstein I believe in supporting local stores and merchants. After all, my family’s quality of life was tied to the fact my father and his father were retailers. I grew up in towns where there were small stores where store owners knew us and where the […]
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What Makes Great Characters Outstanding by Dr. Shirley B. Garrett  I’m a psychologist as well as a writer, so characterization is important to me in both the characters I write and the ones I enjoy reading. My personal goal as a writer is for the psychology of each character to be accurate and provide
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Making It Personal by Susan Van Kirk Have you ever wondered whether books you read have names, places, or events that are personal to the author? It’s like thinking about songs you love and wondering how they came to be written or what they mean to the composer. My Endurance mysteries do have personal associations,
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Finding the Ending by Susan Oleksiw I recently finished a mystery novel that was hard to end, not because I wanted to keep working on the story but because I couldn’t seem to understand where the characters would end up and how they would feel about the change in their lives. The plot suggested several
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Jews and Christmas Music – it ain’t Chinese Food by Debra H. Goldstein I’m Jewish, but I have a confession to make. I love Christmas music. There is something about listening to the songs that makes me feel good. Apparently, I’m not the only Jewish person who feels this way about these holiday songs. According
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A Detecting Book Group by Maggie King Hazel Rose is back in a new adventure, Murder at the Moonshine Inn. After that harrowing confrontation with the killer in Murder at the Book Group, she vowed to leave investigating to the pros. And for eight years she kept her word. Easy because people didn’t clamor for
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It’s all about Me! No, it’s about me! by Vicki Batman In a book, secondary characters support the main characters, sometimes, as a best friend, a sidekick, a grandparent, or even as a bad dude. These characters can be fun to write, but when they take over a book–that’s a runaway train. Writers have to tame
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Thank goodness my local cleaner offers one day service! Since the May release of Should Have Played Poker, I’ve been traveling so much I often have to lie in bed for a moment to remember which direction the bathroom is in. So far, I’ve been successful in having clean clothing and proper orientation. Signings and
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Setting a Story in the Real World by Terrie Farley Moran Hi Debra, thanks so much for inviting me. It is always great fun when you and I get a chance to hang out together. Happy Labor Day everyone! Today is the day we celebrate the history of workers in America. I found this picture
Julianne Holmes aka J.A. Hennrikus and I decided to try something different – an exchange interview. Not only is she my guest today, but I will be visiting her tomorrow on the Wicked Cozy Authors blog. http://wickedcozyauthors.com/2016/08/09/a-wicked-wecolme-to-debra-goldstein. To learn more about both of us, leave a message or a question on both blogsites. 1) You have had a career in
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