Get Your Game Face On

Fiction Query Pitch When you sit down to write the query pitch for your novel or other fiction, you may feel intimidated by the word […]

Gourmand / Gourmet

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: GOURMAND / GOURMET As […]

Crime Novel The Promise

The Promise, by Robert Crais:   When chemist Amy Breslyn goes missing after making contact with presumed Al Qaeda operatives, Los Angeles PI Elvis Cole takes […]

Foreword / Preface

  Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse writers. I have found the following to be among them: FOREWORD / PREFACE […]

Family Life Novel Daddy

Daddy, by Danielle Steel:   New York advertising exec Oliver Watson has it all until, fourteen years and three children into their marriage, his wife leaves […]

Forego / Forgo

  Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: FOREGO / FORGO […]

Cozy Mystery The Body in the Fjord

The Body in the Fjord, by Katherine Hall Page:   When tragedy strikes their Norwegian friend, Bostonians Pix Miller and her mother, Ursula, join a tour […]

For Free / Free

Certain sets of words in the English language tend to confuse people. I have found the following to be among them: FOR FREE / FREE […]

Family Life Novel When I’m Gone

When I’m Gone, by Emily Bleeker:   Letters from the dead? Luke Richardson has just returned from his wife’s funeral with their children when a letter […]