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Summary: Conference chair Judith Klerman Smith and her committee assembled an impressive array of talent, featuring Robert Crais as keynote speaker, Steve Allen as luncheon speaker, FBI and Los Angeles County forensic experts as well as popular mystery writers age Read more.
Summary: Good mystery and police fiction writers know that getting accurate background and technical information about law enforcement can be vital to making their novels believable--and salable. Read more.
Summary: More than 400 writers, editors and agents gathered at the University of Georgia's Center for Continuing Education in late July for the 4th annual Harriette Austin Writer's Conference Read more.
Summary: Writers need agents for many reasons, Meredith Bernstein begins, and foremost among them is that the "agent hand-picks the right person to read your work."
Summary: As I go about the business of twisting publishers' arms to render happy decisions on the clients I represent, I keep a mental short list of the all-time greatest book titles. This is no mere exercise in trivia, no sheep-counting ploy to keep myself awake Read more.
Summary: You've just written a tense mystery or suspense novel. The super- sleuth hero tap dances through an intricate plot only to stumble, unconvincingly, over a mistake in police procedure. Read more.
Summary: Imagine you are a literary agent sitting beside a box brimming with queries. You lift your letter knife high and the sun glints off its blade, illuminating your evil grin. "Whose dreams can I dash today?" Read more.
Summary: There are as many reasons for rejecting a manuscript as there are manuscripts. However, through months of extensive research and with the help of a cutting edge computer program, I have been able to group all rejections into one of four major categories. Read more.
Summary: Over the centuries, the passion of writing, the burning desire for writers to put words on paper has produced stories, novels, articles and poetry that have entertained, educated and inspired us all. Read more.
