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 | Apr 13, 2022 | Honors & Awards, Mystery Fiction
Last September, just as I was relaxing into the routine of the semester, a happy surprise popped up in my inbox. The subject line: Good News! It came from my publisher Melissa Carrigee. The message was short and sweet (as I’ve come to expect from... 
by Rebecca Copeland | Mar 30, 2022 | Honors & Awards, Mystery Fiction
“Can you talk???” A few weeks ago my publisher, Melissa Carrigee, sent me an email with this in the subject line. She hadn’t written anything in the body of the email. But my email system, being ever so helpful, added this little reminder of its own accord: You may... 
by Rebecca Copeland | May 15, 2021 | Mystery Fiction
You wrote the book. You found a publisher. (Finally!) And now the book is making its way to market, which means to bookshelves in book stores. To READERS! Others will read what you spent so many years writing. Or will they? What if they...
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