Opening books and tales

Monday musings from bestselling authors May-hem month is almost over, so for our last Musing of the month, BestSelling Reads authors offer their thoughts about the best way to open a book. Should every book open with action of some kind? Even a kiss can be considered action. Alan McDermott […]

Art, writing and disease

By Scott Bury Art and literature necessarily reflect the times they’re created. During the Black Death, medieval artists decorated texts with images of devils raining arrows on sinners. In the plague of the seventeenth century, Renaissance artists painted the sufferings of masses of people to illustrate the passion of Christ.  […]

Writing plans for 2021

The first Monday musings of a hopeful new year By J.L. Oakley The year 2020 will definitely go down as one of the most difficult years in my nation’s history: the appalling number of deaths from COVID19, the loss of jobs, small business closing for good, and a sense of […]

Holiday writing

Monday musings for the beginning of the holiday season By A.J. Llewellyn When I first started writing romantic mystery novels in 2007, my novel, Phantom Lover, sold surprisingly well when it came out in June of that year. I was keen to get my next book published, but my publisher had other […]