Want to learn more about how to write a killer cozy? Join me for a FREE weekend intensive starting Friday, September 11, 2020, as part of the 9th Annual Savvy Authors Online Writers Conference. This session will help you use three simple questions to kick start a killer cozy community crawling with crimes, kooky characters, comedy, and a crafty cliffhanger that will leave your readers dying for more. Since we also want audiences to care about the crime, understand the motivation of our detective, and remain stumped until the final page, we’ll also cover the basics of mystery plotting, pacing, clue placement, and characterization—then top it all off with a hands-on exercise where the participants create a mystery plot from scratch!
Remember, cozies are traditional mysteries that contain no explicit sex, excessive gore, or gratuitous violence, and take place in a communal setting containing characters who know one another. This subgenre of mystery has become wildly popular today because they include an amateur sleuth whose profession aids in the solution of the crime, thereby giving the audience a level of plot accessibility not available with a technique-driven detective at the helm—such as Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot. This open communication between author, reader, and gumshoe gives the cozy audience an opportunity to solve the caper alongside the investigator, making this a smart subgenre to learn if you’d like to attract a wide audience.
To learn more about how to take my FREE class, “Three Steps to a Killer Cozy,” go to SavvyAuthors and signup today! Don’t worry if you don’t have the whole weekend free. Participants can work at their own pace.
