Reading, Writing, & Roaming with Author Valerie Biel
Valerie Biel, T.K. Sheffield, Anne Louise Bannon, Kathleen Donnelly, Robb Grindstaff, Tim Chapman, Joy Ribar, Laurie Stevens, Kathleen Kaska, Margaret Mizushima, GP GottliebAward-winning indie author, book marketing professional, & writing educator Valerie Biel brings you the latest publishing news, writing craft advice, book marketing & promotion tips. . .and occasional author interviews, new book news, and travel stories.
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Season 3 - Episode 7: Naming Your Characters
This is a podcast for authors by authors! (And also readers who want the scoop on what authors are REALLY thinking.) Join Valerie Biel and T.K. (Tracey) Sheffield as we share topics to help our fellow writers as well as fun tidbits on what...
The Aside: Conversations with authors just off the page - Episode 12 with Margaret Mizushima
Hello again —
Welcome to the second fabulous interview I’m excited to feature this week!
I don’t know if you’ve noticed how many book launches there’ve been this week? It makes sense since this is the week after Labor Day and we’re firm...
Eight Tips for Creating Brilliant Character Names
I consider one of the best parts of writing fiction the ability to name my cast of characters. I know when I wrote my first stories I didn’t approach this in a scientific or logical way. I just picked names I liked that fit the idea of the...
The Aside: Conversations with authors just off the page - Episode 11 with Kathleen Kaska & G.P. Gottlieb
I’m an author (as you all know), but you might not know that I have a journalism degree . . . so here I get to channel my insatiable curiosity. (Some might call this nosiness!) I’m excited to ask authors about their work and the ideas that...
Writers' Forum - August 2026
Hello, Everyone!
I rarely send out a Monday email, but here we are on the last day of August . . . and it’s the last day that sending out the August Writers’ Forum makes sense.
I haven’t had a specific AI in writing/publishing section in...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Award-winning author of stories inspired by travel & insatiable curiosity. I use my powers for good to help other authors navigate the crazy publishing world by providing editing, book marketing, and promotion assistance.
Hi, I’m T.K. Sheffield, a Wisconsin author writing stories for readers to laugh and escape. "The Backyard Model Mysteries" are funny cozy mysteries. "The Valentine Lines" and "Valentines in July" are screwball comedies.
Author Anne Louise Bannon mostly writes mysteries, including the Old Los Angeles Series, the Freddie and Kathy series, and the Operation Quickline series. Visit her website at AnneLouiseBannon.com.
Award-winning author Kathleen Donnelly writes the National Forest K-9 and Colorado K-9 series. She lives near the Colorado foothills with her husband and four-legged friends. To learn more, visit Kathleen's website at kathleendonnelly.com.
Fiction author, book editor, writing coach and instructor, retired journalist. Lived all around the world and settled in a small town in the Midwest on a big lake.
Tim Chapman's fiction has been published in The Southeast Review, the Chicago Reader, Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, Palooka, and the anthology, "The Rich and the Dead." He's the author of two novels, "A Trace of Gold" and "The Blue Silence."
Joy pens two Wisconsin mystery series: Deep Lakes and Bay Browning, while traveling with her husband in their Winnebago. Like your mysteries cozy? Deep Lakes is for you. Like to live a little edgy? Bay Browning might be your series of choice.
Laurie Stevens is the author of the award-winning Gabriel McRay psychological-suspense series and "The Return," a sci-fi/fantasy.
Kathleen Kaska is an award-winning author of the Sydney Lockhart Mysteries and the Kate Caraway Animal-Rights Mysteries. She won the PenCraft Award for Best Mystery Series and the Amity Literary Award for her upcoming novel, Death Without Dignity.
Author of the Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, police procedurals set in the Colorado mountains. Lover of dogs and cats. My veterinarian husband and I recently moved from our home state of Colorado to the Pacific NW.
I love books and music, trees and flowers, walking and baking, pies and ice cream. I'm host for New Books in Literature, a podcast channel on the New Books Network, and I write the Whipped and Sipped Mystery Series (book #4 launching in 2025)
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