When we started this blog, we thought we'd link to other author blogs. It soon became evident, however, that we were going to have to do some serious thinking about how to manage the ever-growing list of author blogs. So we divided it up into a couple of categories: Writers who blog mostly about Writing/Publishing (things that might be useful to readers who write) and Writers who blog about writing...and life!
So here is the first installment. Writers on Writing. (If you're looking to find out about your favorite writer's vacation, you have to wait for the second installment.) I've made the arbitrary decision to limit this to writers of genre fiction. If anyone wants to take on the job of creating a set of writing links of other types of writers, we'd be happy to have a "guest blogger" to do the job!
Other limitations: I've spent a great deal of time through the years studying accessibility and design issues. Any site with flashing or scrolling anything, or that requires high bandwidth plug-ins didn't make the list. Any site with frames didn't make the list. Anything hard to navigate didn't make the list. You get the idea.
- A Newbie's Guide to Publishing
J.A. Konrath's excellent blog on the trials and triumphs of being a genre fiction writer. - All The World's A Page
group blog of authors and editors on writing and publishing - And Another Thing...
blog of Irish thriller writer and journalist John Connolly - Confessions of an Idiosycratic Mind
Blog of Sarah Weinman, The Baltimore Sun's crime fiction columnist - Crime Fiction Dossier
Blog of crime fiction critic and journalist David J. Montgomery - Criminal Brief
James Lincoln Warren, Leigh Lundin, Angela Zeman, Steven Steinbock, Deborah Elliott-Upton, Robert Lopresti, and Melodie Johnson Howe chime in on a blog so much fun it's criminal - Everything and Nothing At All
Blog of Crystal Phares - Grumpy Old Bookman
Blog about writing and publishing by UK author Michael Allen - Inkspot
blog of various authors with books published by Midnight Ink - Jungle Red: Writing Well Is The Best Revenge
Blog of Rosemary Harris, Hallie Ephron, Hank Phillippi Ryan and Jan Brogan - Janet Koch on trying to become a published mystery writer
- Mystery Writing is Murder
blog of mystery-writing mom Elizabeth Craig - The Stiletto Gang
More mystery-writing women: Evelyn David, Marilyn Meredith, Maggie Barbieri, Rachel Brady, Misa Ramirez and Susan McBride - Storytellers Unplugged
30 writers, editors, booksellers and other industry pros - Terry's Place
Blog home of romantic suspense author Terry Odell - Two Pages Away From Greatness
Dawn Hawkins Johnson on putting words in order - Robert W. Walker's blog
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7 comments:
Great job, Laura. Thanks for putting this together. Terrie
Great list with some new ones for me to explore!
What a terrific list! Thank you so much--this was not an easy task, I'm sure. And here's me, blushing with pride, to be part of it. We have fun at Jungle Red Writers, and try to be a good resource for our fellow writers.
We're now discussing whether there's such a thing as the "writer's dream"--like the student's dream or the flying dream.
And interestingly, lots of us have similar dreams. (Not including the best seller list. We all have that..)
Come visit after you finish here..and as for you Women of Mystery, you're an instant short cut on my computer. See you soon!
xo Hank
Great list.
There is also a list of interviews of self-published writers who made it to the top on http://www.epublishabook.com/?cat=110
The interviews are about publishing techniques rather than the books or the writers but, so far, it's all from women writers of mystery, so it fits :-)
Have you heard of the pantyhose killings? Our society is really becoming more violent all the time and women need to know how to protect themselves. I’m a student of Psychology and this information was given me.
The information given me was that this occured in the early 1970′s. The victims were all university girls. The victims were all wearing micro mini-skirts and pantyhose.
The killer would hide inside their apartment. As soon as the girl would step inside the door, he would grab them and place them on the bed. He would put a pillow over their face and began suffocating them. He would revive them and smother them three or four times over.
After smothering the life out of his victims he would remove their pantyhose and keep them for a sick trophy. The girls were not raped. They were found fully clothed with the exception of their missing pantyhose. The pantyhose were never removed until after he killed his victim.
A classmate of mine emailed me this video that shows how depraved many are within our culture. We are studying the dark element within the human mind.
What a great list!! I've just started a blog that will address various issues writers face when writing mystery and the more blogs I visit, the more knowledgable I become. Thanks for this! Becky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38eOf1Dztyc
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