Karen Woodward: How To Write A Murder Mystery

Catch me if you can!

Panzer and I stopped in at Karen Woodward's blog today. We heard there was a fantastic post from back on October 18 for mystery writers.

You'll definitely be glad we did!

Have you ever wondered how to write a mystery? Well Karen Woodward did, so she did some reading and studying. Here's your chance to benefit from her studying and learn the ins and outs of clues, the sleuth, motivation, the crime, how to solve it and more.

If you want help with your mystery writing, tootle over to Karen Woodward: How To Write A Murder Mystery: I've never written a murder mystery, but I've always wanted to. I fell in love with detection and murder in grade nine when my...

Karen Woodward: 6 Ways To Get Rid Of Infodumps At The Beginning Of...

Infodump. Infodunp. Te he he he!

Panzer loves Karen Woodward's blog! She always has such informative posts. And he also loves the titles for her posts ... infodumps ... infodumps ... infodumps.

Panzer and I have to confess we're guilty of the infodump in our first drafts. But, if we take Karen's advice and follow her six steps, maybe we won't have to spend so much time rewriting!

So ... if you too are guilty of the beginning infodump and want to know how to avoid it, tootle on over to Karen Woodward: 6 Ways To Get Rid Of Infodumps At The Beginning Of...: There are two entrenched ways of thinking about story openings. Folks either think a story needs to open with setting and a detailed in...

Karen Woodward: Amazon Ranks Authors In Terms Of Their Book Sales

Panzer parked the Panzermobile at Karen Woodward's blog today. Panzer loves stopping in at Karen's blog. She always has such interesting posts!

This post is about Amazon's Author Ranking system. Karen does a great job of explaining how the system works. It looks like Amazon is going to be pitting author against author now.

So ... it looks like Panzer and I better start writing faster ... so we can have more books on Amazon ... so we can rack up more sales ... so we can rank higher ... so we can write faster ... so we can ...  or ... so we can just forget about Author Ranking and go back to writing the best books we can however long it takes.

Tootle over to Karen Woodward: Amazon Ranks Authors In Terms Of Their Book Sales: Amazon's Top 100 Authors It used to be that only books were ranked against one another but now Amazon is doing it to authors. The quest...

Karen Woodward: What Is A Writer's Platform?

Panzer likes stopping in at Karen Woodward's blog every once in a while to see what she's up to.

Karen is writing a series about building your writer platform. This post centers on what your platform is made up of. It includes the usual, Facebook, Twitter, etc; but also includes audio and video. As you already know, Panzer plans to add audio and video to his platform. You'll also find some useful links included in this post.

So ... tootle on over to  Karen Woodward: What Is A Writer's Platform?: This is the first post in a series on the subject of creating a writing platform.  This is how I think of a writer's platform: A writ...

Karen Woodward: A Writing Taboo: Never Begin Your Story With Weath...

The Panzermobile has been getting quite a workout in the Catoshere this week! Today we stopped in at Karen Woodward's blog to see what she's been up to lately.

We had to read her post when we saw the title, Never Begin Your Story With Weather.

"Say it isn't so!"

Panzer says, "No weather? Say it isn't so!"

 "But ... but ... one of our new stories starts with weather, because the weather is a character in the story."

 Fear not Panzer. It's not as bad as you think. Weather can begin your story ... sometimes.

Tootle over to Karen Woodward: A Writing Taboo: Never Begin Your Story With Weath...: to read all about it.

Karen Woodward: Self Publishing on Amazon: Kindle Direct Publishin...

Panzer and I took three of his friends for a ride around the Catosphere today. The big boy wanted his friends to see how much fun the Catosphere is.

Guess what Panzer and his friends found? A great post at Karen Woodward's blog about publishing using Kindle Direct Publishing.

This is a complete plan of how to publish at KDP. And I mean COMPLETE. Everything is here: from opening your account at KDP to uploading your cover.

Let's be truthful. KDP is not the easiest place to publish. Karen gives you a helping hand up the ladder.

So, if you need a course on how to upload you file, tootle on over to  Karen Woodward: Self Publishing on Amazon: Kindle Direct Publishin...: