Marketing a cozy mystery series doesn’t have to mean living on social media. Here is what actually sells cozy books, from one indie author to another.
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Planning a cozy mystery series? Learn to build recurring characters, a series bible, and a small-town world readers will happily return to, book after book.
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Build a cozy mystery suspect list that plays fair: how many suspects you need, what makes each one squirm, and where to hide the killer in plain sight.
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How to write a cozy mystery opening readers cannot put down: lead with the sleuth, build the town first, and plant the case before the body lands.
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A craft guide to writing red herrings in a cozy mystery that mislead the reader without breaking fair-play rules or insulting their intelligence.
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In a cozy mystery, the setting isn’t just scenery. It’s more like one of the characters and it’s usually the nosiest one in the book. I’ve been working on a series called Wiregrass Roots, set in a small South Alabama town, and the longer I work on it the more convinced I am that the
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Every writer I know has heard “show, don’t tell” approximately four million times. We hear it from professors, from critique partners, from agents at conferences, from the back covers of craft books, from blog posts, and writers’ Facebook groups. But how many times do you sit down to draft a scene, and then do it
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There’s a particular kind of silence that only exists in a small town. It isn’t the empty hush of the desert or the lonely quiet of a city apartment at three in the morning. It’s heavier than that. Expectant. It’s the quiet of a hundred eyes watching from behind lace curtains, and a hundred
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