by Rebecca Copeland | Feb 15, 2023 | Mystery Fiction
I continue with the series of scenes that were edited out of The Kimono Tattoo. The edits always improved the narrative flow, dramatically. Narrative timing is a skill I am still learning. In the early stages of writing The Kimono Tattoo, I understood that readers... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Feb 1, 2023 | Mystery Fiction
Here’s another scene from The Kimono Tattoo draft that ended up on the cutting room floor. Again, we have reference to Hiratsuka Raichō, but also to a controversial feminist painter, an ancient Japanese legend, and the politics of protest in postwar Japan. Why... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Jan 18, 2023 | Mystery Fiction
We are very interested in reviewing the full manuscript of The Kimono Tattoo. The word count is a little too long though. Would you be willing to edit your book down to get closer to 100k words? When I first sent Melissa Carrigee of Brother Mockingbird Publishers my... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Jun 8, 2022 | Honors & Awards, Mystery Fiction
I’m so happy to have this new review of The Kimono Tattoo in the Kyoto Journal. Many thanks to David Cozy, Kyoto Journal’s Reviews editor, for writing it! —Rebecca David Cozy is a writer and critic who has lived in Japan for several decades. His fiction... 
by Rebecca Copeland | May 25, 2022 | Japanese Culture, Mystery Fiction
Writing a book is hard work! Promoting it may be even harder! I thought when I finished my novel, all I had to do was ship it off to my publisher and then get started on my second. Wishful thinking. Once the book was in the pipeline, I needed to work on the marketing.... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Apr 26, 2022 | Mystery Fiction, Translation
When you write, do you hear voices in your head? Do the words on the page turn color? Do they fly? When I was writing The Kimono Tattoo, the scenes unfurled on the screen of my imagination. They were most vibrant when I went out for my morning run. There must be...
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