My Holiday Wishes for You
~ May All Your Wishes Come True ~ This has been a wonderful year for me. I have my health and my creativity and have…
12 Things I am Thankful for: A Writer’s List of Thankfuls
~ What I am Thankful For ~ On this Thanksgiving Day, I thought I would make a list of all the things I am thankful…
W-Plot Your Way to a Better Scene
~ Plot Your Scene with the W-Plot Method ~ The W-Plot can be used to lay out an entire novel, but it’s true strength is…
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Winning an Award
~ Are you more likely to read a book that has won an award? ~ This week my romantic suspense Close to the Skin is…
What Verb is Your Character? Actioning for Writers
~ I ________ you ~ I was very fortunate to have the chance to hear Damon Suede speak at the New Jersey Romance Writers Conference…
My Writing Journal – How I Start off the New Year
~ Start with a Journal ~ The beginning of a new year is always a good time to review what one has accomplished and to…
Thank You Supportive Readers! My 2017 Donation
~ My Supportive Readers Make It Happen!~ Zara West’s 2017 Donation Without supportive readers, a writer has no purpose. Sure we can write for ourselves. But…
Writing a Series – 6 Tips for Success
~How to Extend the Story~ When I started writing my first romantic suspense Beneath the Skin, I had no plans to make it into a…
First book in Zara West’s New Tidal Trilogy Series wins award
I just learned this week that the unpublished first book in my new Tidal Trilogy series, In With the Tide finaled for the San Antonio…
Word Trackers – A Good Thing or Not?
50,000 Words and Counting! I did it! For the third year in a row I managed to get down 50,000 words on my next novel,…
Fast Drafting My Way to The End of NaNoWri
My first novel, written as a respite from working on my dissertation, took me five years to write. My second novel took seven years to…
I Am Ready to Write Within the Skin!
Ready. Set. Go. Starting tomorrow I will begin working on Book 3 in the Skin Quartet series Within the Skin. This is the romantic suspense love…