JOANNA ELM, Author, Journalist, Attorney
The Pleasures and Perils Of A Writing Life
As soon as I saw the photo of it, I just knew an angler’s priest could be a perfect murder weapon in my thriller, Fool Her Once. What’s an angler’s priest, you ask.
Well, first of all, here’s the photo which caught my eye in a New York Times story in November 2017. It was in the real estate section, and featured the Manhattan townhome of Swedish author, Olaf Olafsson. Continue reading “Where On Earth Did You Get That Idea? #2 Murder by Angler’s Priest”
Try as hard as you can, but it’s almost impossible to have a fun time anywhere these days. Last Saturday should have been a super fun day at the Palm Beach Book Festival. In my opinion, the Book Festival is the best thing going in Palm Beach during the season. Continue reading “Authors Entertained At The Palm Beach Book Festival But Addressed the Tough Issues of The Day”
Just last week, an article from England landed in my inbox. I was struck immediately by the author’s view as to who should and who should not call him/herself a writer.
It’s a thought-provoking article because it is quite contrary to the generally held view here, in the US, that almost anyone who writes or attempts to write anything is a writer. Or, as one of my favorite author-bloggers, Anne R. Allen, states in this post: “If you go off by yourself at regular intervals to create stuff using words, you’re a writer.” Continue reading “Are You A Writer? English Author Says No If You Don’t Make A Living As One”
While I have spent the last six years writing, re-writing, editing and revising my third thriller, Fool Her Once, author Eldon Farrell has written and published eight full-length novels and two books of short stories set in the world of his full-length novels.
Continue reading “Ten Books In Six Years: Unthinkable? One Author Tells How He’s Done It”
The trouble with death cleaning is that it’s too much of a walk down memory lane. Those were the days, you think as you try to decide which clutter to toss. It’s difficult –especially when you come across your first forays into writing fiction.
As I blogged last week, delving into boxes full of old papers and documents produced a whole bunch of acceptance letters for “confessional” stories I’d written when I was living in the U.K.
It also produced this 10th anniversary issue of Star magazine (below) from May 1984 — which took me right back to the days of writing fun fiction for that tabloid. Continue reading “Those Were The Days: Writing Fun Fiction For The Star”