Lois Winston is a strong writer, best known for her Anastasia Pollock Crafting series of cozy mysteries.
Early in her career, with Manuscript #2, she acquired an
agent, but the roses of her writing journey still had thorns, a lesson to us
writers that we control our success. Winston definitely controlled her success.
She survived a bankrupt publishing house and the closure of a publisher’s
entire cozy mystery line, but it was shenanigans with the contract that brought
her into self-publishing.
She talks about it all, along with writing tools that can be
a distraction, in this episode of The Write Focus.
Bestselling and award-winning author Lois Winston writes
mystery, romance, romantic suspense, chick lit, middle-grade, and nonfiction.
She sold her first book in 2005.
Currently she writes the critically acclaimed Anastasia
Pollack Crafting Mysteries, featuring magazine crafts editor and reluctant
amateur sleuth Anastasia Pollack, along with a supporting cast of characters,
including Ralph, the Shakespeare-quoting parrot. Learn more at www.loiswinston.com where you can
sign up for her newsletter and receive a free Anastasia Pollack Crafting
Mini-Mystery.
- 00:40 Welcome / Writing Bug Bites
- 4:15 First Cozy Mystery
- 6:40 Writing with Humor
- 12:00 Finding the Direction for the Anastasia Pollock series
- 15:00 Crime Scene Writer / Researching
- 17:33 Saving the Work
- 20:50 Story Collages, Images for Story, and on to Covers
- 25:00 Dealing with Distractions
- 29:25 Writing is a Marathon, not a Sprint
- 35:00 Winston’s Next Release and Audiobooks Releasing
- 37:25 Closing
Total Run Time = 38:25
LINKS
Killer Crafts & Crafty Killers blog: www.anastasiapollack.blogspot.com
Booklover’s Bench: https://bookloversbench.com
The Stiletto Gang: https://www.thestilettogang.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Anasleuth
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/722763.Lois_Winston
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lois-winston
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