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Recommended Reading List: July 2026
It took me a long time to finish this list, and I did start it in July, like usual. There’s just a lot to recommend from what I was reading. And a few things I’m not going to recommend, mentioned below. A good reading month, all in all. Read a recently published history of 1929. I […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/08/27/recommended-reading-list-july-2026/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #Plays #RecommendedReading #Romances
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The Write Attitude: Rest
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can buy copies in ebook. The paper should be out in a month or so. Here’s a link to the ebook on WMG […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/08/19/the-write-attitude-rest/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #Athletics #publishing
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The Write Attitude: Short Story Craft
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can buy copies in ebook. Here’s a link to the ebook on the WMG Books site, but you can get the ebook anywhere. […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/07/22/the-write-attitude-short-story-craft/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #craft #JeffreyDeaver #publishing
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Recommended Reading List: June 2026
This rather short list makes it look like I didn’t read much in June, but I did. I had some misfires (as you can see), and I read quite a few things that I didn’t think were worth recommending. And then there’s Kelley Armstrong… I binged the Kelley Armstrong Rockton/Haven’s Rock series until I caught […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/07/09/recommended-reading-list-june-2026/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #HavensRock #KelleyArmstrong
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The Write Attitude: Sticking The Landing
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to to pick up a copy. You can preorder copies from all online retailers. Here’s a link to the ebook. The second edition of The Write Attitude is quite different […]…
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Recommended Reading List: May 2026
With school over (as of the first week of May), I have more time to read. I occasionally binged a novel. I’ve had some down days as the chronic health issues flared and on one lovely day, I read two entire novels, something I hadn’t done since the damn dental surgeries of 2023. It was […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/06/12/recommended-reading-list-may-2026/#freenonfiction #MiddleGradeYoungAdult #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #Romances
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The Write Attitude: Doing The Work Amid The Noise
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Jamie Ferguson, T. Thorn Coyle, Dean Wesley Smith, Robert Jeschonek and others. Everything in this bundle […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/12/the-write-attitude-doing-the-work-amid-the-noise/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle
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The Write Attitude: Sounding Like Yourself
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Darcy Pattison, Douglas Smith, Ron Collins, Tracy Cooper-Posey and others. Everything in this Storybundle is exclusive, including […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/06/the-write-attitude-sounding-like-yourself/#freenonfiction #NewReleases #OnWriting #AddisonRae #Billboard
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Recommended Reading List: April 2026
I had a good reading month. Lots of fun things, although a couple of the novels read slowly. (Meaning I had to savor every word. Oh, woe is me!) I did finish a crappy mystery anthology. It was the one I was reading at UNLV during lunch, although a number of students ended up co-opting […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/05/02/recommended-reading-list-april-2026/#freenonfiction #Plays #RecommendedReading #SpyFiction #AllyCarter
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The Write Attitude: Churning It Out
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by Robert T. Jeschonek, Andrea Pearson, J. Daniel Sawyer, Dean Wesley Smith, and ten more great writers. […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/26/the-write-attitude-churning-it-out/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #publishing #storybundle #WriteAttitude
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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The Write Attitude: Getting Lost in The Words
This post is a chapter from my book, The Write Attitude, which is now in a second edition. I’m posting it here to entice you to head over to Storybundle to pick up a copy, along with ebooks by T. Thorn Coyle, Ron Collins, Darcy Pattison, Anthea Sharp, and ten more great writers. Everyone’s book is […]…
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Recommended Reading List: March 2026
Technically, the first thing I finished reading was Anton Chekov’s The Seagull for my theatre history class. I’d read both the play and the short story the first time I was in college 100,000 years ago, and didn’t like them then. I decided to give the dang thing a chance again. Still didn’t like it, […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/04/04/recommended-reading-list-march-2026/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #Plays #RecommendedReading #AllyCarter
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Cover Art
On my Patreon page, I’ve been putting up free posts about the new and improved cover art that we’re doing at WMG. You can find a number of posts, but I thought I’d share this one with you here. (I’ll be sharing the occasional Patreon post throughout 2026 and maybe beyond.) You can sign up […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/03/08/business-musings-cover-art/#BusinessMusings #freenonfiction #OnWriting #ScienceFiction #SpaceOpera
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Recommended Reading List: February, 2026
I had a lovely February of reading. Lots more time than I expected, which is fun. As regular readers of this feature know, I don’t recommend everything nor should I, considering I’ve also been reading 300-year-old plays for my Theatre History class. But there’s lots of good here, including a nonfiction book that everyone in […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/03/01/recommended-reading-list-february-2026/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #Thriller #CaseyStegman
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Recommended Reading List: December 2025
Hah! The first Recommended Reading List that’s been on time in months (years?). I finished it in December, and am putting it up as soon as I can. Feels good. All of this, except for this little part, was written in December as I finished my reading. Now onto finishing the last 2 from…
https://kriswrites.com/2026/01/02/recommended-reading-list-december-2025/#AlternateHistory #freenonfiction #Holiday #Mysteries #OnWriting
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Recommended Reading List (Belated Edition): July 2025
Not as much to recommend in July, primarily because I didn’t like what I read enough to recommend it. So one novel and a nonfiction book, as well as some articles. In case you’re wondering why this post is for July, I got behind on posting my lists and…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/30/recommended-reading-list-belated-edition-july-2025/#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #DanielSilva #EvgeniaPerez #GabrielAllon
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Recommended Reading List (Belated Edition): June 2025
For those of you who are coming late to this party, I got very far behind recording the books that I have loved over the past year. I usually do it when the month of reading ends. For almost eight months, I was unable to do that. I posted May’s edition in early…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/26/recommended-reading-list-belated-edition-june-2025/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #OnWriting #Romances #AARPTheMagazine
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Recommended Reading List (Belated Edition): May 2025
Yep, I’m late. I was busy last year working on saving the business, so I got behind on things like the Recommended Reading List. I thought of bunching everything into one list, but I didn’t want to, and then I thought of pretending I hadn’t missed, and I didn’t want…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/13/recommended-reading-list-belated-edition-may-2025/#freenonfiction #Mysteries #OnWriting #Romances #BillboardMagazine
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Recommended Reading List: November 2025
I’m still playing catch-up on the lists, but I decided last month to stay current with the current reading, which feels quite good. I have more reading time, which is nice, but some of it is for school work. Lots of ancient plays and plays in translation. I’m learning a lot about…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/12/07/recommended-reading-list-november-2025/#freefiction #FreeFictionMondays #freenonfiction #LegalThriller #Mysteries
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Recommended Reading List: October, 2025
I decided to do the Recommended Reading List as intended, releasing it the month after I did the reading. I got behind earlier in the year, so the place where I store the recommended reads has turned into a towering mass of fiction. I’m going to catch up on those, but first,…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/11/08/recommended-reading-list-october-2025/#freenonfiction #MiddleGradeYoungAdult #Mysteries #RecommendedReading #SpyFiction
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Recommended Reading List: April 2025
Still operating from behind here, because these past two years were insane. At least I found time to read again, even when conducting a workshop or working with student manuscripts. I didn’t find a lot to like, though, in April. I read a number of books that either didn’t end well or…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/08/28/recommended-reading-list-april-2025/#Fantasy #freenonfiction #historicalfiction #RecommendedReading #AaronCouch
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Recommended Reading List: March 2025
I had some strange experiences in my March reading. I taught a Gothic class in May, with an emphasis on Gothic romance. I loooove Gothic romance, and am not horribly fond of Gothic horror. But I chose a couple of books I hadn’t read before…and one of them! OMG! It started okay, had great…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/25/recommended-reading-list-march-2025/#freenonfiction #OnWriting #RecommendedReading #Amazon #BarbaraBroccoli
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Important Announcement Regarding My Short Fiction
If you had asked me a year ago whether or not I would write a post like this, I would have laughed at you. Then I heard from an industry friend that the sf and mystery digest magazines were for sale. It looked like, he said, they would be selling soon.
https://kriswrites.com/2025/07/13/important-announcement-regarding-my-short-fiction/#BusinessMusings #freenonfiction #OnWriting #AlfredHitchcockMysteryMagazine #Analog
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Free Fiction Monday: The Amazing Quizmo
At night, Darren dons his secret identity. He becomes the Amazing Quizmo, the Great God of Answers. He presides over bar trivia contests and no one can beat him. Until a girl appears. A pretty girl. A very pretty girl who just might be smarter than Darren. And for Darren, that just won’t do.
https://kriswrites.com/2025/06/23/free-fiction-monday/#FreeFictionMondays #freenonfiction #MondayFictionPost #competition #contemporary
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Recommended Reading List: February 2025
I mentioned in January’s list that I had fewer books to recommend in February and March. I read a lot but didn’t finish some of the books, and the ones I did finish, I didn’t really like well enough to recommend. As I tell my writing students, you…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/05/31/recommended-reading-list-february-2025/#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #AlyssaCole #AshleyRuthMBernier #BestAmericanMysteryandSuspenseStories
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Business Musings: Putting Yourself Out There
I do most of my business writing on Patreon these days, but roughly once per month, I’ll put a post for free on this website. This post initially went live on my Patreon page on March 30, 2025. If you go to Patreon, you’ll find other posts like this one. Putting Yourself Out There I’m…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/30/business-musings-putting-yourself-out-there/#BusinessMusings #freenonfiction #OnWriting #Plays #Gavin
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Recommended Reading List: January 2025
I read a lot in January and liked a lot of it as well. Some truly marvelous books (which is not what I could say for February & March. More on that in those lists). I also finished my reading for the in-person space opera workshop I was conducting in the middle of the month. […]…
https://kriswrites.com/2025/04/24/recommended-reading-list-january-2025/#freenonfiction #RecommendedReading #SpaceOpera #Thriller #BeatriceVerhoeven
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