My Day at the LA Times Festival of Books
By Roselyn Teukolsky My phone tells me it will rain this morning at 6 am on Saturday. The probability of rain in LA at the end of April is…
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Editor’s Choice May 2025 The Warm and Cozy Issue
From Sandra Murphy, Editor If you’d like to write a guest post for the newsletter, send an email to editor@writersandpublishersnetwork.com with ideas for articles. Don’t send the full article—we want…
Stash the Stiff
By Vinnie Hansen Last year, when registration for Left Coast Crime 2024 rolled around, my 70th birthday prompted me to seize new experiences. I took on moderating a panel and…
TIMES TWO! Surviving—and Enjoying!—a Double Book Launch
by Kathleen Marple Kalb (aka Nikki Knight) It’s something that doesn’t usually happen even to big-ticket bestselling authors, but it happened to me: two books coming out on the same…
What’s your Zoom-i-quette? Or, did I just get photobombed by my cat?
by Flo Selfman Want to know more about Flo? Check the YouTube video link in her bio below. Two useful offshoots of the recent pandemic that are likely here to…
Author’s Corner
By Ed Mickolus This article originally appeared in Mensana, the newsletter of the North East Florida Chapter of Mensa. Reprinted with permission. Why are you considering writing? As the designated…
Cozy Mystery Tips from an Editor
by Korina Moss This month marks five years since I started writing my Cheese Shop Mystery series. I’d been writing all my life and had a couple of short stories…
Working Dogs in Crime Fiction
I recently returned home from Left Coast Crime (LCC) in Denver, a well-organized and delightful conference that occurs annually in different cities in the western region of the United States.…
Kim Gottlieb-Walker – Warning: Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll!
Author and WPN Member Kim Gottlieb-Walker’s novel, “Lenswoman in Love” Fearless young photographer Maddy Garfield shoots love-ins and police riots in the turbulent 1960s, and deals with bikers, rock stars,…
From the Glass Ceiling – Through the Looking Glass! The Red Queen Effect Strikes Again!
By Pamela Ebel “Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else you…