by Judy Penz Sheluk | Apr 17, 2015 | Interview with an Author
Kathleen Kaska is a writer of fiction, nonfiction, travel articles, and stage plays. She’s also the author of the award-winning Sydney Lockhart mystery series. When she’s not writing, Kathleen spends much of her time traveling around the country, looking...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Apr 2, 2015 | My Publishing Journey, One Writer's Journey
In A Change of Direction, my most recent post in this series, I discussed my decision to shift my focus from searching for an agent to submitting directly to a well-established small press. Fortunately, my timing was bang on for Barking Rain Press, a publisher on the...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 20, 2015 | Interview with an Author
I first “met” Susan Van Kirk through Sisters in Crime, Guppies (the great unpublished). Since that time, we have shared our “finding a publisher” stories, our highs and lows, and an editor. Susan’s first book was The Education of a Teacher (2010), a creative,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 6, 2015 | My Publishing Journey, One Writer's Journey
In my previous posts in this series [The First Cut is the Deepest; Calling All Agents], I addressed my hunt for an agent. Having invested the better part of a year with little to show for my efforts, by the end of 2013, I knew it was time to take a different approach....
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Feb 20, 2015 | Interview with an Author
There’s nothing quite like discovering a new mystery series, and I’m happy to say that I’ve done just that with The Lighthouse Library Mysteries by Eva Gates. The first book in the series, By Book or By Crook, was released on February 3, 2015 by Penguin Obsidian. The...
