Let’s Add a Little Pizzazz to Tax Season
The beginning of February marks that time when all government-required tax forms should have been received. Our toil diminished to numbers. Now the race is on until mid-April when those numbers must be filed. In the interim, we’ll go shopping for a blood-sucking...
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...
Much Ado about This Thing Called Social Networking
When I get exasperated with social networking, I often think of that poor bewildered character, “Jack.” You know the guy ― the protagonist in the children’s nursery rhyme, “The House that Jack Built.” If you need a refresher of the rhyme,...
Suffering from Mood Poisoning Today
And then there was the guy who asked why anyone would spend years writing a novel when you can buy one for about twenty bucks. Clearly this guy doesn’t know that we writers as a lot are generally afflicted with one or more diseases that compel us to write....
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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American Christian Fiction Writers