Tina Morlock is a professional book editor, ghostwriter, and young adult thriller author living out of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She blogs regularly on the cozy mystery genre for Write the Crime and handles the social media content for the company.
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 likeContinue Reading
Before we dive into the agents, here are some quick tips and suggestions that will make the submission process much smoother: Get to know their submission guidelines well before you submit your work. Do not send the same query letter to every single agent. Research the agent you’re querying toContinue Reading
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,Continue Reading
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 roomContinue Reading
