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Showing posts with label Pamela Meyers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pamela Meyers. Show all posts

Monday, August 21, 2017

God’s Waiting Room

by Pamela S. Meyers, @pamelameyers

Earlier this week, I started working on my next article for Novel Rocket and now I can’t find it. In my search, I came upon a post I’d written back in 2010, the year before I was offered my first book contract. Oh so much water has flowed under that proverbial bridge since then. But, one thing I learned in the process is that if you want to write for publication, be prepared to wait. Even after you are published.

The article I wrote back in 2010 is till as timely today as it was back then, because in publishing some things never change. Here is the article:

Monday, July 17, 2017

Why I Like Using Real Settings

by Pamela Meyers, @pamelameyers

Years ago when I wrote a cozy mystery, I wanted to set the story in my Lake Geneva, Wisconsin hometown, but the police chief in my story was a bungler. If I did that, I ran the risk of causing people to think the real police chief was a inept. I did the only thing I could and made up a small village on a small lake about ten minutes east of my hometown and had my characters drive into Lake Geneva for lunch and shopping.

I admit that having created the small village where my story and its sequel took place I had free reign to design the setting to fit the storyline. I also didn’t have to run the risk of someone saying I got a detail all wrong.