by Judy Penz Sheluk | Nov 1, 2019 | My Publishing Journey
National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) began in 1999 as a daunting but straightforward challenge: to write 50,000 words of a novel during the thirty days of November. Now, each year on November 1, hundreds of thousands of people around the world begin to write,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Dec 6, 2018 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
In The Hanged Man’s Noose, the first book in my Glass Dolphin Mystery series, the basic premise is: greedy developer comes to the small town of Lount’s Landing with plans to build a mega-box store on the town’s historic Main Street, thereby...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Nov 23, 2018 | Inspiration, My Publishing Journey
Readers of my Glass Dolphin Mystery series (The Hanged Man’s Noose; A Hole in One) know that Levon Larroquette is an antiques picker (think of the TV show, American Pickers) and the charismatic ex-husband of protagonist Arabella Carpenter. In book 1 (Noose) we...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Mar 22, 2018 | One Writer's Journey
In Descrambling Scrivener: Part I, I promised to tell you what I’d learned from Gwen Hernandez’s excellent course on Scrivener. Here are the basics: Creating a new project: Think of Scrivener as a three-ring binder where you can store your writing, research, notes,...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Oct 19, 2013 | One Writer's Journey
In Descrambling Scrivener: Part I, I promised to tell you what I’d learned from Gwen Hernandez’s excellent course on Scrivener. Here are the basics: Creating a new project: Think of Scrivener as a three-ring binder where you can store your writing, research, notes,...
