Her Own Write (Members and More)

Jean Rae Baxter -- author of The Way Lies North and others

Donna Carrick -- author of Gold and Fishes and The Noon God

Vicki Delany -- author of Burden of Memory, In the Shadow of the Glacier, and others

Kate Freiman -- author of Irish Moonlight and others

Lyn Hamilton -- author of The Orkney Scroll, The Moai Murders and others

Maureen Jennings -- author of Does Your Mother Know, Vices of My Blood and others

Mary Keenan

Caro Soles -- author of Drag Queen in the Court of Death and others

Sylvia Warsh -- author of Season of Iron, To Die in Spring and others

Discuss books --Mystery Readers.org offers advice on starting a discussion group.

How to Write A Mystery -- So you wanna be a writer? Join the club! Gillian Roberts, author of the Amanda Pepper series, offers lessons here.

Show Me the Money -- You got the perfect plot and the perfect detective. Now all you gotta do is write 100,000,00 words or so, send your magnum opus to an agent who'll get you a fabulous advance then sit back and wait for those cheques to come flying in. Uh-huh. Before you head down to Yorkville for Jimmy Choo shoes or start searching for real estate in Tuscany, check out this informal survey on publishing advances and royalties in the romance industry. Includes publishers big and small (including a few e-publishers) and gives an idea of advances and royalties paid in the Real World of Publishing.

Macmillan UK New Writing Imprint -- Caveat here: MacMillan pays no advance and takes all rights, including first refusal. The contract is non-negotiable. Check literary blogs for comments.

Barnes and Noble Author Interviews So what do Sue Grafton and Sara Paretsky have to say? Barnes and Noble offers print and audio interviews with various authors in the mystery, suspense, and thriller fields. Besides Grafton and Paretsky, you can find JA Jance, Nevada Barr, Linda Fairstein and many others .