Very, very, very bad advice
Yes, I’m being tongue-in-cheek with my title because I’m writing today about adjectives and adverbs. On Twitter, the fabulous Manda Collins — a historical romance writer who I know and love — posted...
View ArticleThe Story Behind the Story
BREAKING POINT is out in two weeks! I’m really excited about this book for several reasons. 1) The cover. I LOVE this cover. It hits all the right spots for me. It’s suspenseful, big, different, and I...
View ArticleBREAKING POINT — out today!
Woo hoo! It’s another release day in the Brennan house. BREAKING POINT — the 13th (!) book in the Lucy Kincaid series — is out today! Bella Caruso survived a nightmare of abuse and betrayal. Today, she...
View ArticleWho Are You? Personality Tests
Remember when you were a teenager … or maybe more recent! … when you loved filling out personality tests to find out what kind of person you are? Ha … yeah, we already know, right? But now with the...
View ArticleABANDONED
We’re not supposed to have favorites. Like, kids. I’m a mom and I’m not supposed to have a favorite kid. And I don’t. I might have a favorite kid on one day, and then another day it’s another kid....
View ArticleTOO FAR GONE
If you didn’t know, TOO FAR GONE is out and has been since last week. I’ve just been really bad about blogging for the last year (or three!) so forgot to announce (though I did send out a newsletter!)...
View ArticleHello From the Writing Trenches
It’s been a busy couple of months! In addition to the release of TOO FAR GONE, the 14th (!!!) Lucy Kincaid thriller, I finished NOTHING TO HIDE, revised, and just received the copy edits today. I know...
View ArticleLucy Kincaid returns April 30th!
New York Times bestseller Allison Brennan’s latest novel featuring FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid finds her on the trail of a serial killer. With a background in psychology, FBI Agent Lucy Kincaid is good at...
View ArticleWriting Tip: Don’t be afraid to slash and burn
I deleted two chapters today and I feel good. Okay, not great, but good. No writer likes to delete their words. We want to think that everything we write is amazing when we write it and worth reading …...
View ArticleI’m Blogging at Substack!
Hello Readers and Writers: I’m blogging again at Murder She Writes! I found a very easy-to-use platform called Substack that I’m now using, you can subscribe over at...
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