Tina Morlock

  • What Cozy Mystery Authors Do to Market Their Books

    What Cozy Mystery Authors Do to Market Their Books

    So, you just published your cozy mystery series . . . now, what? You sit and watch your rank, but your book is not rising as fast as you’d like. And when that happens, you start to worry your book might not ever sell as many copies as you’d like it to. You could…

  • Cozy Mystery: The Most Marketable Fiction Genre

    Cozy Mystery: The Most Marketable Fiction Genre

    Let’s face it. Finding creative angles to market fiction is a challenge because most books are built on characters, emotions, and something potentially awful that happens to the protagonist. Here and there, you might run across an author who has figured out a distantly related way to market their novels, but it shouldn’t be…

  • Where’s the Blood in a Cozy Mystery?

    Where’s the Blood in a Cozy Mystery?

    Murder. It’s scary, right? We could also say it’s also frightening, terrifying, traumatizing, and just plain messy and disgusting. Blood and guts everywhere, nasty smells, and emotionally paralyzing. For those of us who have never seen a dead body, it’s beyond imaginable what it’s like to walk into a room to see someone lying…