by Judy Penz Sheluk | Oct 16, 2015 | My Publishing Journey, One Writer's Journey
I signed up for my very first Bouchercon—Bouchercon 2015— in July 2014, exactly one week after I signed my publishing contract with Barking Rain Press for The Hanged Man’s Noose. For those who aren’t quite sure what Bouchercon is all about, here’s...
by Judy Penz Sheluk | Aug 21, 2015 | Interview with an Author
Richard ‘Ricky’ Bush has been listening to, playing, or writing about blues music for most of his adult life, so once he sat down to write a novel he naturally folded his passion of the music into his fiction. His protagonists, James ‘Mitty’ Andersen and Pete Bolden,...
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....