by Bethany Maines As the year draws to a close, I find myself doing the usual assessment of what I did this year and what I’ll be doing next year. But this year, I’m trying to concentrate on evaluating more through the lens of not just financial success, but emotional success. What was fun for […]
by Bethany Maines In 2017 a Romance novelist friend of mine invited me to be part of an anthology of holiday novellas as part of a marketing event. I said, “Of course!” Did I have a holiday novella? No, I did not. Was it September when she asked and all content was due in November? […]
Welcome to the Stiletto Gang Black Friday Gift Guide! We here at the Stiletto Gang love our readers and hope that you’re all healthy and happy this holiday season. We’ve put together a list of our recent works to inspire you during the gift shopping free-for-all of Black Friday. Aside from some fantastic sales many […]
by Bethany “Run for the Hills” Maines Thanksgiving is looming and that means that… gulp… Christmas is around the corner! But what that means for me is that I have some awesome new releases to share with readers. That’s right, I’ve been hard at work on stories of murder, romance, theft, and puppies. I may just […]
by Bethany Maines I want to kill someone in public. I don’t have a particular person. Just someone. Last weekend I volunteered for my business districts wine walk event. It was a fun event that paired artists and wineries with local businesses. Visitors bought a ticket which guaranteed them ten tastings from the wineries of […]
by Bethany Maines I’m not supposed to be writing this. I have a pretty stiff yearly schedule on what I intend to write. And while the Stiletto Gang blogs are on my schedule, I have currently abandoned all sanity and schedules and have started committing time to a project that is NOT on the calendar. […]
by Bethany Maines We are celebrating our new logo this month and discussing what our red stiletto means to us. As I have been recently taking a trip through the Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the stories of Hans Christian Anderson, I was immediately reminded of the story of the Red Shoes. In the story an […]
by Bethany Maines Last weekend I participated in a “Literary Corner” at a local arts festival. It was a chance to sell books, meet readers and network with other authors. It’s always so great to see how other authors sell and a chance to learn some pointers. It was also, as it turned out, a […]
by Bethany Maines This week I’m going to take part in a live reading event called Noir at the Bar. It’s a fun event that focuses on crime tales and the forties pulp-fiction style. I’m excited to participate, but as usual it throws me into a tizzy of what to read. Short stories come in […]
By Bethany Maines Me Before Publishing: I just love writing and I would never bother anyone to buy my books. In fact, I prefer not to talk to people at all. I’ll just stay in my writing cave over here and type some more. Me After Publishing: BUY MY BOOKS!!! REVIEW MY BOOKS!!! I NEED […]