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Last weekend I murdered my victim! | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. Last Weekend I Murdered My Victim! People keep asking me, ‘How’s your book doing? And I love it when they ask that and show interest, even though I don’t always know what to answer. No matter, though. It was all a learning process I had to go through and I’m glad I did. Being creative and using the imagination. The other day I had a conversation with my hairdresser, sitting in her chair, while she gave me a nice ...
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Amazon | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. Will Amazon NL Change Dutch Publishing? On this rare occasion I have made a Dutch translation of this post below the English one. Ik heb graag jullie ideeën over dit onderwerp, dus denk vooral mee! Yesterday, Amazon opened an ebook shop in the Netherlands! Reactions from the industry, readers and writers have been mixed so far, and I think I know why. But Dutch writers are a funny bunch as well. I hope that Dutch...
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Milbury | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. My Sleuth Has To Live Somewhere! Last week, I mentioned that for the past four months I have been busy creating a world and populating it with characters. Of course getting a reader attached to a story doesn’t only depend on the world the story is set in. It also depend on the characters and the story it self, but let’s for the moment focus on the world. My new cosy mystery series is set in Milbury, a fictional n...
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Self-publishing | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. Making a Full-time Living with Writing. Sometimes several things happen at once, making you see things in a different light and reconsider where you are. This happened to me in the past week. How to Make a Living with Your Writing: Books, Blogging and More. By Joanna Penn, while at the same time hearing that my current day job will quite likely end on 1st January 2019. Wouldn’t that be great? Not just income from...
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Fiction Writing | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. The Hidden Life Of My Sleuth. The creation of this virtual life is called backstory and writers spent a lot of time creating it and making it as believable and real as possible. The ironic thing is that in a way, the readers never sets eyes on it. I can hear you think, Why waste so much time creating something that never makes it into the book? I have written a lot of backstory in the past two months. At time...
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World Building | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. My Sleuth Has To Live Somewhere! Last week, I mentioned that for the past four months I have been busy creating a world and populating it with characters. Of course getting a reader attached to a story doesn’t only depend on the world the story is set in. It also depend on the characters and the story it self, but let’s for the moment focus on the world. My new cosy mystery series is set in Milbury, a fictional n...
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Starting from Scratch | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. It has been a while since my last post and a lot of things have happened since then, mostly to do with the writing of my fiction series. In May I had finished writing the first two novellas in the series, which had the combined word count of 70,000 words. Both books went through the ‘beta reading stage’ and in June were on the brink of being send to my editor. The facts are now as follows:. My series will now be ...
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My Plans For 2015! | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. My Plans For 2015! Hard to belief it’s already halfway January, but I think I’m still in time to post a quick update on my plans for 2015. If all goes according to plan Book 1 is published in October and Book 2 in November. And if I’m lucky and everything goes smoothly, Book 3 in January 2016. I have however made the promise to myself that I won’t start this new blog until I have finished writing Book 1 and plott...
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Cosy Mystery | Maria Staal
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Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. The Mystery of Writing a Cosy Mystery. When I decided last year to change the direction of my series from not-having-a-distinct-genre to cosy mystery, I suddenly needed to find out how to write one. I have read mysteries in all its forms for as long as I have been reading, including a large amount of cosies. But to go from loving to read a cosy to suddenly writing one, is a completely different story. Choking, sm...
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My Sleuth Has To Live Somewhere! | Maria Staal
http://mariastaal.com/2014/11/17/my-sleuth-has-to-live-somewhere
Non-fiction writer, writing fiction. Jacob Hicks Murder Mysteries. New Release Mailing List. My Sleuth Has To Live Somewhere! Last week, I mentioned that for the past four months I have been busy creating a world and populating it with characters. Of course getting a reader attached to a story doesn’t only depend on the world the story is set in. It also depend on the characters and the story it self, but let’s for the moment focus on the world. My new cosy mystery series is set in Milbury, a fictional n...
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