By Francine MathewsSo it's August in Colorado, which means it's monsoon season--the time of year when the arid heat of summer gives way to daily waves of cumulus rising over the Front Range and bearing down in thunderheads above the plains. The temperature falls and the humidity goes up. The...
Book Covers: How Much Do They Influence You As A Reader?
One of the books offered by https://blinddatewithabook.com/Our last blog post asked whether it mattered to you if the author was a man or a women and many, many of you read it and some commented. One bookseller stated that while selling books they noticed women buy books written by men...
Is the author a man or a woman? Does it matter to you?
....by Karna Small BodmanWhen you are buying a book, do you care of it's written by a man or a woman? If you're a woman do you instinctively pick up a novel with a woman's name on the front cover or vice versa if you're a man? And what about author's names that don't give you a clue to whether a...
ThrillerFest Recap 2017
by K.J. HoweThrillerFest is the annual conference of the International Thriller Writers, and I'm honored to be the executive director of the event. We just had a whirlwind week in NYC as we celebrated the 12th annual conference, and it was memorable to say the least. For those of you...
Climbing Walls
S. Lee Manning: Universal advice to writers has always been to write what you know. What that meant was to write from personal experience – which for me pretty much would have meant writing novels about middle class Jewish women from Cincinnati, Ohio – who wanted to be writers but wound up as...
KYLE MILLS GOES ROGUE – Recreating Another Author’s Characters – Could You Do It?
....posted by Karna Small BodmanHow does a New York Times Bestselling Author in his own right respond when invited to recreate another well known author's characters? I am delighted to welcome Rogue's guest blogger, Kyle Mills, who will tell us all about it....and there are more details on:...
DO YOU HAVE A SECRET DESIRE TO WRITE SUSPENSE?
Rogues left to right: Chris, Gayle, KJ, Jamie, S Lee, Sonja, & Francine. For some reason Karna was AWOL. by Gayle LyndsHave you considered writing a suspense novel? Since five of us Rogue Women are attending ThrillerFest this week in New York City (more about that later), here’s a taste of one...
WHO THE HELL IS RAISA JORDAN?
OR, WHEN CHARACTERS BECOME MUCH TOO REALby Chris GoffI love this blog topic—discussing our personal relationships with the characters we create. It reminds me of a time when I was on the phone with a good writer friend, and we were talking about the protagonist in my thrillers—Diplomatic Security...
5 WAYS TO GET INTO CHARACTER
by Sonja StoneCOMMUNING WITH YOUR IMAGINARY FRIENDS CAREFULLY COMPOSED CHARACTERSMy Rogue Sisters have been discussing our personal relationships with the characters we create. How do we find them/name them/know them? This article describes how I connect with my characters....
HAPPY JULY FOURTH! IT’S THE PERFECT DAY TO EAT PIE.
By Francine MathewsI rarely eat dessert. In fact, at this menopausal point in my life, I rarely eat at all, which is a tragedy for a woman who loves food and her kitchen as much as I do. I forego breakfast and lunch because I prefer dinner. I skip dessert because I'd rather take out the calories...