Today’s Writers tricks of the trade deals with tapping into your own emotions and experiences when writing what your characters are experiencing. This allows you to make a wide detour around clichés and create dimensional characters that feel real to the reader.

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On the “what’s going on with Morgan front” I’m diligently working to finish the manuscript for my “Writers Tricks of the Trade – The ABCs of Writing Fiction” book. My target is to have it to the editor by June 15. This will be 39 tips, tricks and techniques—yeah, some letters warrant more than one entry—based upon the column but with more info that can be used right away. I’m excited and you may have noticed that many of the recent columns make reference to a letter of the alphabet.

The annotated pre-proof for “Vanishing Act in Vegas,” the next Silver Sisters crime caper, is now with the publisher and I expect release later in the year. Phyllice and I will be plotting the next one, “Diamonds in the Dumpster,” when I go to Oregon at the beginning of June so we can put our heads together in person. There is more on the horizon, but that is enough for now.

Cheers from Morgan and check out my new blog at http://ping.fm/O09l0