Guest: NAIWE’s Public Relations and Book Marketing Expert Marcia Rosen

Crime is the number one genre people read. Dozens of published authors have created stories hearing the voices of past famous detectives. Many of us mystery writers have the ambition and desire to create thrilling crime fiction with clever detectives. I certainly have been impacted and influenced by these past crime-solvers. Have You?

Here’s what you can expect to learn in this class:

  • Tips to imagine the sound of your character’s voice

  • Types of mysteries

  • Good characteristics for your main character

  • Visualization of your main character through partnerships with professionals of similar qualities

Duration: 53 minutes

Marcia Rosen (aka M. Glenda Rosen) is an award-winning author of eleven books including her newest one, An Agatha, Raymond, Sherlock and Me Mystery: Murder at the Zoo plus The Senior Sleuths, Dying To Be Beautiful Mystery Series, and The Gourmet Gangster: Mysteries and Menus (menus by her son Jory Rosen). She is also author of The Woman’s Business Therapist and award-winning My Memoir Workbook. For 25 years, she was owner of a successful national marketing and public relations agency. Marcia has frequently been a speaker or program moderator at organization meetings and conferences, bookstores, libraries, and Zoom programs. Topics she has taught and presented over the past twenty years include “Encouraging the Writer Within You,” “Marketing for Authors,” “Writing Mysteries…Not A Mystery,” “Writing Your Memoir,” and recently “Anatomy of Writing a Murder.” Many articles on these topics have been published on mystery reader blogs and in newsletters and magazines and her newest articles relating include “Location, Location, Location: Murders Have Their Places”; “Hearing Voices of Past Famous Detectives: Their Impact and Influences”; and “Writing Mysteries at a Zoo: With Caution.” She is a member of Sisters in Crime National and New Mexico (Croak & Dagger), Southwest Writers, New Mexico Book Association, Women Writing the West, Public Safety Writer’s Association, Women’s National Book Association, and National Association of Independent Writers and Editors.