writing the cozy mystery – Nancy J. Cohen

Writing the Cozy Mystery – Whodunit?

July 24, 2021July 23, 2021 by Nancy J. Cohen

During the Discovery phase of your novel, which I discuss in my post on Five Stages of Writing, you’ll begin formulating the characters. If you’re writing a mystery series, you may already know the protagonists and recurrent characters. So now you have to determine the suspects that are specific to your WIP (work-in-progress). As a … Read more

Keeping A Series Fresh

January 14, 2025September 28, 2017 by Nancy J. Cohen

Once you’ve written several books in your mystery series, it gets harder to come up with new and interesting material. The story has to engage your senses as a writer if you want to entice readers. You’ll want to avoid repetition such as means of murder and motives. And you need to vary the locales … Read more