I had a discussion with an editor a few weeks ago and she told me about the hundreds of submissions she looks at every year. She glanced at me and said, “I can’t tell you how many of them start
Opening Scenes
Writing From the POV of a Female Reporter
Geneva Chase is a hot mess Both Random Road and Darkness Lane are written from the first-person viewpoint of Geneva Chase…a woman. I’m male, I have both an X and a Y chromosome. “Really, you write as a woman?” I’m
Writers Workshop: Good Guys, Bad Guys, and Plot Twists: Developing a Mystery with Thomas Kies
Pamlico Writer’s Group How do you develop memorable characters, from your hero to your bad guys (who are people too!)? How do you make them leap off the page and land in a life or death struggle? How do you
Second in Geneva Chase series scheduled for launch
DARKNESS LANE, the second in the Geneva Chase mystery series, is tentatively scheduled for release in June 2018. This mystery features a missing teenager, murder, adultery, sex trafficking, Russian mobsters, movie stars and Broadway theater. Can Geneva get the story