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    3 Tips To Correct The Pacing In Your Novel – Part One

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    What is pacing? Pacing is the rhythm of the novel, of the chapters and scenes and paragraphs and sentences. It is also the rate at which the reader reads and the speed at…

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    Get Your Facts Right In Crime Writing w/ NY Times Bestselling Author Alafair Burke

    Cool Stuff NY Times Bestselling Author Alafair Burke Learned as a Prosecutor that You Can Use in Your Book  This post originally appeared on ThrillWriting. It’s a great blog. If you haven’t checked…

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    My Writing Process blog tour

    This is the last blog tour on my schedule. This tour hit the authors on Prose & Cons. A few of them, anyway. First up was Helen Hanson. Helen works in the high-tech…

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    One Lovely Blog Award

    This morning I received a comment on my blog from a fellow writer and blogger, David J. Delaney, nominating me for the One Lovely Blog Award. David’s blog I have always enjoyed. He…

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    Sisters In Crime Blog Hop

    As I told you in my last post, I Swear To Tell The Truth, I recently joined Sisters In Crime. The mission of Sisters in Crime: to promote the professional development and advancement of…

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    I Swear To Tell The Whole Truth… Fun Fact for Fiction Writing

    I just read an interesting article by Leslie Budewitz, an award-winning author and a member of Sisters In Crime, an organization I am proud to belong to. The information was so fascinating I…

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    Channeling Your Emotion to The Page

    This morning at 5 a.m. I woke to a nightmare. Before I get to that story let me give you a little back story. For those of you who don’t know I have…

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    Don't torpedo your career. Be professional.

    I wavered all day on whether to post this or not.  In the end I decided it was an important subject. What I read this morning shocked me.  Many of you might have…

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    6 Tips for #PitMad Pitch Party Today on Twitter

    #PitMad is happening now!  It started at 8am and will continue until 8pm EDT/EST.  If you want your pitch to stand out keep these things in mind. 1.  Write a great pitch.  You…

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    Building your audience with Triberr

    Let’s talk Triberr. For those of you who don’t know about Tribber, let me briefly explain.  Triberr is a social media site for bloggers of any kind.  It’s especially great for writers.  Once…

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Sue Coletta

Sue Coletta is an award-winning crime writer and member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and International Thriller Writers. In addition to her award-winning Murder Blog, she also blogs on the Kill Zone (Writer's Digest "101 Best Websites for Writers"), Writers Helping Writers, and Story Empire (Positive Writer's "Top 50 Writing Blogs"). Sue's backlist includes psychological thrillers and true crime/narrative nonfiction. Now, she exclusively writes eco-thrillers (The Mayhem Series, books 5-9 & continuing). She's appeared on the Emmy award-winning true crime series, Storm of Suspicion, and three episodes of A Time to Kill on Investigation Discovery. Links to her newsletter and books can be found here: https://linktr.ee/suecoletta Email: sue(at)suecoletta(dot)com

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