I haven't written a lot of mysteries, but I've read and watched a ton of them. How to write a good mystery?
It's really important to know where you're going. For me, I start with the end. Who did it and why? How did they do it? Who will they try to frame? How will they be caught?
From there, you work backwards. Figure out how they got to this ending.
Then you add the red herrings. The persons with motives and or opportunity who really didn't commit the murder. Often these will be criminals...
I thought I'd post this. In a previous post in mentioned unbelievably I'd received death threats that had come about as a result of my authorship and trying to market my books. I wanted people to be able to see I wasn't kidding. I wasn't making it up. This is how low people can really go.
Don't worry about me. I'm not. The is in some ways laughable and pitiful attempt to make me afraid. That' all this is, I don't consider these threats serious or anything more than just that. The only thing I...
One of my favorite lines from Star Wars.
Yes, many years ago I was a Sheriff's Reserve Officer. Wore a badge, carried a gun, the whole works. In the Sheriff's Reserve, we were unpaid volunteers. Yes, this meant that we took on some of the duties of full-time paid staff, as well as the risks for free!
Why am I writing this now? Some turkey in his critique on Amazon of my book accused me of "Stolen Valor!" as he put it. Stolen Valor is actually a crime. He asked me how many bodies I pulled out on...
Hey all, I thought I'd post this picture so you can see that I wasn't kidding when I said I'm better than 98% of all money managers. That's a self-managed Schwab account. Notice the current 1 year return as of this morning. It's going to vary on the day, but it's been about 40%.
Honestly, most money managers, check this out and google it, research it elsewhere, don't beat the S&P 500. I whoop it's ass. It's 23.95% the last year as of this moment. I nearly double that.
So, I can't promise...
My books have profanity. My books have serious sexual situations. My books have murder and rape. My books have women's self-defense and ball busting. I write to entertain. I write to provide some of my own wisdom I've learned in life. I write to teach things and highlight certain historical facts.
But more than anything, I write in the hope that people will be led to Jesus Christ. I am a Christian first and foremost. There is no higher calling for the Christian than to see others come to...
Greetings.
Any non-author probably has no idea what it's like to be an Independent Author. First of all thank the Lord Jesus I currently have a good paying job. My family would starve on what I've made as an Indie Author. I do not in ANY WAY recommend it as a primary source o income. You spend money advertising and get next to no sales. It's basically all expense and no income.
Then, what's even worse is the constant stream of con emails and phone calls you get, people promising you the...