by Linden Gross | Nov 19, 2020 | Publishing, Writing
Tomorrow marks the fortieth anniversary of a historic class-action lawsuit’s consent decree spearheaded by an LAPD police sergeant named Fanchon Blake, with little to no help from anyone. Her fight for female equality would help end institutionalized sexual and racial...
by Linden Gross | Nov 12, 2020 | Collaborating/Ghostwriting, Publishing, Writing
Shhh! It’s won’t be official for another eight days, but Busting the Brass Ceiling: How One Heroic Female Cop Changed the Face of Policing is already available on Amazon. The back cover copy reads: Fanchon Blake didn’t understand what she was getting into...
by Linden Gross | Oct 15, 2020 | Publishing, Sales, Writing, Writing Life
Feeling frustrated? Indulging in a little (or a lot) of writer self-doubt? To Kill a Mockingbird author Nelle Harper Lee was so disenchanted with her manuscript that she threw it out the window of her New York apartment. Luckily, since those were the days of...
by Linden Gross | Oct 1, 2020 | Writing, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
Memoirs usually aren’t the easiest to write. Let’s face it. Most people don’t decide to write a memoir based on happy, serene experiences. The personal memories that move people to dive into this kind of nonfiction narrative writing are usually...
by Linden Gross | Sep 24, 2020 | Language, Writing
If your narrative has started to feel like a dead fish, you clearly need to employ life-saving measures. Showing readers what happens to the people in your story can help turn around even the most critically-ill piece of writing. So can letting them hear it through...
by Linden Gross | Sep 17, 2020 | Writing
I love Donald Westlake’s 5C approach to writing a novel, which I wrote about in last week’s blog. This week, I share an article by James Scott Bell in the Writer’s Digest about the 5Cs of writing a thriller. The secret lies not in chase or...
