In Writing: The “How NOT To’s” Are So Much More Fun Than the “How To’s”
When the Farmers Exchange clock on my mantel strikes midnight and I find myself writing a sentence like this one: “Watch out for the tree!” Adriana barked… …well, you know it’s time to get some rest. If you didn’t catch the “Tom Swiftie”...
Books I’m Going to Write Someday
I’ve read that the average person has 50,000 to 60,000 thoughts per day. I hope that’s not true because it’s 7 p.m. on Monday as I write this and I’ve only had about 10 thoughts today. Most of them have been about writing books because the rewards of penning something...
The Bounty on the Porch
Barring none, this is the most perfect spot in the world. To me. Yes, I know what it is not. It is not the Grand Canyon, a crimson sunset, foaming ocean waves, a chic sidewalk café, or any one of a thousand bucket list destinations, the kind we squirrel pennies away...
When a Writer Drives Alone, the Car will be Crowded
When I tell my non-writer friends (NWF) that I sometimes drive eleven hours between Marpennsylginia and Georgia without ever turning on the radio, they cock their heads in wonder as though they’re trying to figure out this phenomenon. Their next question: “You travel...
Is It Okay to Alter Nature in Our Writing?
For brevity sake, I’ll shorten what I had written: An intricate tale of…the series takes place…on a crypt-like hillside…and the raging Potomac River… A friend, reading my book proposal, looked up, a pout on his face. “You can’t say that,” he said. Say...
Historical intrigue interwoven with modern-day suspense and a touch of the mysterious.
Contemporary romantic suspense.
Coming-of-age sagas.
About Koontz’s Writing:
An award-winning writer, former journalist and corporate escapee, D. L. Koontz writes about what she knows: muddled lives, nail-biting unknowns and eternal hope. Growing up, she learned the power of stories and intrigue from saged storytellers on the front porch of her Allegheny Mountains farmhouse. Despite being waylaid for years by academia and corporate endeavors, her roots proved that becoming a writer of suspense was only a matter of time. She has been published in seven languages.
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