Write an Opening Chapter, Lesson 1: Where Your Story Begins

The first of seven Sunday lessons. No rush, no falling behind.

Will learning the rules cost you your voice?

Dispatch from the Drawing Room

How do you write a setting that feels real?

Dispatch from the Drawing Room

Build your genre compass (plus a passage from the novel I'm writing)

Register free now for fall classes, don't pay until the October start

The doors open — and an Agatha winner walks in

You've held a key since you joined. This is where it turns in the lock.

Sunday Dispatch: Why this genre, and not a slightly fancier one

A small defense of the form. From someone who's tired of defending it.

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