Thirteen Gifts for Editors 'Tis the season for giving and receiving. If we're going to make a list for Santa, we might as well go al...

Okay, here's a winner, a reminder, and a new contest. Word Libs Winner The winner of our Word Libs game is Red Garnier! Red wins an eboo...

by Helen Woodall Dearest Editor, I know you will be wanting to buy some Christmas stories with Christmas just around the corner so I am send...

by Mary Altman Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Charades & Horrible Blunders by Josephine Ross is an entertaining and...

They're tried, they're true, they're trite. They've made their way into infamy among readers, who decry them as much as they...

By Raelene Gorlinsky Okay, you’ve researched the period in which you are setting your historical story. You are sure that your characters ar...

By Helen Woodall Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester [November 2005; ISBN 9780434013296; currently out of print, available ...

If you are billing yourself as a writer of historical fiction, you should have at least a basic grasp of history. And then you need to do lo...

by Mary Altman Lady Jane McDonald flushed and pressed her hand to her anxiously twisting stomach as the forbidding rake hovered inches away ...

by Mary Altman and Nick Conrad When a day is too ________ and I need to ________, sometimes it helps if I _______ a book of Mad Libs® and __...