by Chance Penway When a hillside shed in their San Francisco neighborhood mysteriously burns, Fran and Alford, can’t resist taking a look. What they discover while poking around in the cinders reveals the unexplained death of an unforgettable woman. Their obsession with her fate puts them in the crosshairs of a killer. The Flophouse Murders...
by Jeri Kean The Shady Acres community pool was often described as Sparkling! by realtors, but as Full of hairballs! by anyone who swam laps in it, especially the teenagers on the Shady Acres Abalone Swim Team. This morning it was indeed sparkling, and surrounded by bright green grass, majestic palm trees, neat rows of white recliners and colorful...
Helpful Advice From the Other Middle Ages The solstice is upon you! You have not yet been sucked away into the darkness that fell with the installation of the loathsome troll and his minions. Who could have predicted this reprieve? Only a month since, you were poised to see your republic voted into oblivion–and look at you!–back from the brink...
Tarweed is an online platform with the goal of helping writers find a following while they are working on a book, as well as through publication and beyond. We are inviting a small group of writers to participate in Works In Progress, our first round of author introductions. As an experienced author, you are invited to create a Tarweed account...
a group of children were fleeing a kindly man. though he was kind and was not dangerous, the children knew he would turn them over to people who would harm them. and so they ran. they were in a different dimension, a fever dream of bright colors and impossible architecture and church roofs that arched high above candy floss clouds and ikea chairs...
When I first met the founder of Tarweed, I was intrigued by the “business” model of helping writers engage with readers in a different, innovative and fun way. The old publishing model is on its head. Have you noticed? You can’t get an agent, you can’t get a publisher to look at your work unless you have already done the tough work of building...
For many writers, the fun part is the writing. Marketing, not so much. If you want your work to find an audience, you will have to moonlight as what Joey Garcia of the Belize Writers Conference calls, an ‘Authorpreneur.’ This means marketing. And one aspect of marketing will be reading your work in front of an audience, whether live...
Are you writing a novel, a memoir, a short story or poetry collection? Every writer struggles at some point. Is the writing as clear, as compelling, as coherent as I want it to be? Will I ever find a publisher? An audience? Will I ever finish? Tarweed coaches can help. From evaluating a manuscript to designing a comprehensive lesson plan to help...
As a writer, you may have noticed that it is challenging to find a publisher if you don’t already have a following. One of the first questions an agent or publisher may ask is, how many twitter, or facebook, or instagram followers do you have? This is because once your work is published, in order to market it effectively, you need to have a...
