Pre-Order Now for Book 5 in Writing the Killer Mystery

Finish and Sell your Mystery Novel!!!

Let me show you how

• Build conflict and suspense into scenes
• Write dynamic dialog
• Use secrets and lies in your mystery
• Fix plot, characters, and scenes
• Self-Publish your book
• Get a literary agent
• Find a traditional publisher
• Promote your book
• Develop a marketing plan
• Build your author platform

In a Nutshell
This fifth book in the creative writing course, Writing the Killer Mystery, offers advice on finishing, revising, publishing, and marketing to make the mystery novel a success.
Help with your Mystery Novel
>>> Are you looking to take your murder mystery from concept to publication?
>>> Do you want to grow your writing knowledge and skills?
>>> Looking for a muse to help with writing your mystery novel?
>>> Are you stuck on some aspect of crafting your mystery?
>>> Do you sometimes have writer stall-out?
Let Writing the Killer Mystery series guide you with Volume 5, Getting It Right, Getting Paid.
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Promote Your Book on Facebook

Facebook offers a great number of groups to promote your books.  If you have not already done so, you need to try this promo method.  Here is the basic formula.

1. Go to a promo book page. 
2. Post to the group a short book blurb and link to your book. I always use the Amazon link as it produces a nice pic of your book cover. Also, if the promo group offers sales/discussion posts, always pick discussion.
3. Post no more than one book a day to a group. Don’t overdo your welcome.
4. Pay attention to the group’s rules. Some are wide open but others have requirements. For example, “Kindle Unlimited” must have #KU, Kindle Unlimited, or something like that in the post, where it can be easily seen.
5. Rotate through the groups. Using the list below, you should be able to do a month of promos for a book before any repeats.
6. I track everything on a spreadsheet.  One sheet per book.  I note the post date for each promo group. I also keep my book blurb on the same sheet for that book.

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Here is the blurb for Writing the Killer Mystery: Places, Clues and Guilt, Volume Four.

★★ Read for free on Kindle Unlimited ★★

 ✔ 99 Cents with Kindle Matchbook

☺ Now an Amazon Bestseller

➭ Create dynamic settings

➭ Invent great clues and evidence

➭ Find means and motive for the killer

✔ $2.99 to Buy

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HM67D1Q/

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The post looks like this on FB.

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My list of promo groups on Facebook follows.   Remove any that don’t work for you. As you go on you can add to the list. I suggest sticking to groups with a few thousand follower or more.  Note some very similar names so use them as copied here. You can find these groups by doing a FB search on the name.

• <Kindle Book Promotion> Authors, Writers & Bloggers
• -->>Promote Kindle Book ++
• All Things Books
• Author/Publisher/Editor/Book Readers
• Authors Ebook promotion & Reviews , Amazon kindle self publishing
• Book Junkie Promotions
• BOOK REVIEW & PROMOTION
• Celebrating Authors
• Everything and Anything to do with Books
• Free Author Book Promotion
• Indie Author Book Promotion Page
• Kindle Amazon Book Club - Authors Promote Here!
• Kindle Unlimited
• Kindle Unlimited Bookworms
• Kindle, Kindle, and Kindle
• Passion for Books
• Promote Your Book Here
• Promote Your Book Here!
• Promote Your Books Here
• The Kindle Book Library
• Unlimited Kindle Reads
• EBook Promotions
• Authors promote your books.
• Unlimited Book Promos
• Kindle Amazon Book Club - Authors Promote Here!
• Book Promotion
• Kindle/Book Club
• Good Kindle Unlimited Reads
• Kindle Book Library
• -->> PROMOTE Kdbook! FREE!
• eBook & Book Ads and Promotions

Happy promoting!!!

Writing the Killer Mystery: Places, Clues and Guilt

Make your Mystery Novel a Success!!!

Let me show you how

• Write dynamic settings
• Create believable locations
• Find means and motive for the killer
• Use opportunity and alibis
• Invent great clues and evidence
• Drop red herrings to baffle all
• Apply misdirection
• How to play fair
• Separate backstory and history
• Incorporate flashbacks
• Piecemeal backstory and history

In a Nutshell
This fourth book in the creative writing course, Writing the Killer Mystery, lays out the elements needed in every murder mystery, including setting, means, motive, opportunity, clues, backstory and history to make the mystery novel a success.

Help with your Mystery Novel
>>> Are you looking to take your murder mystery from concept to publication?
>>> Do you want to grow your writing knowledge and skills?
>>> Looking for a muse to help with writing your mystery novel?
>>> Are you stuck on some aspect of crafting your mystery?
>>> Do you sometimes have writer stall-out?

Let Writing the Killer Mystery series guide you with Volume 4, Places, Clues and Guilt.

Grab a copy today!!!

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Pre-Order Writing the Killer Mystery: Plotting the Murder (Volume 3)

Craft your Mystery Novel’s Plot to Intrigue Readers!!!

Let me show you how

• Apply the Three Act Structure to the mystery novel
• Understand rising tension and its use
• Resolve mid-story writer's block
• Incorporate Timelines into the story structure
• Develop Opening Lines that draw the reader in
• Plan a riveting story with complications and twists
• End Act II on a dramatic note
• Use the Dead End Dilemma
• Reveal the murderer
• Understand the five parts of a scene
• Recognize the ten kinds of Cliffhangers
• Define the mystery with Six Key Events
• Develop an Event-driven Plot

In a Nutshell
This third book in the creative writing course, Writing the Killer Mystery, provides a strategy to develop a storyline for the murder mystery, covering plot structure, the opening, the middle story, the big reveal, and writing scenes, pulling everything together in an event-driven plot.

Help with your Mystery Novel
>>> Are you looking to take your murder mystery from concept to publication?
>>> Do you want to grow your writing knowledge and skills?
>>> Looking for a muse to help with writing your mystery novel?
>>> Are you stuck on some aspect of crafting your mystery?
>>> Do you sometimes have writer stall-out?

Let Writing the Killer Mystery series guide you with Volume 3, Plotting the Murder.

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Why you need Writing the Killer Mystery: Great Beginnings

Five Element Mystery Story Model

The central focus of Great Beginnings, Volume 1 of the Writing the Killer Mystery series, is the Five Element Mystery Story Model, something that every mystery novel must have.  This first volume shows how to use the five elements to brainstorm ideas, flesh them out, and organize them into a plan for starting your mystery novel.

Future volumes will focus on each of the five elements and how they go together.  The overall approach to the series is taking the mystery novel from concept to publication.



GREAT BEGINNINGS, VOLUME 1, WRITING THE KILLER MYSTERY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE:  SOME FRONT END STUFF
CHAPTER TWO:  MYSTERY WRITERS AND THEIR SLEUTHS

• The Genesis of a Murder
• Edgar Allan Poe 
• William Wilkie Collins
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie
• Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ellery Queen (Pen Name)
• Dashiell Hammett
• Earl Derr Biggers
• Erle Stanley Gardner
• Ed McBain (pen name)
• Rex Stout
• Take Away

CHAPTER THREE:  UNDERSTANDING THE MYSTERY

• A Model for a Story
• Story Examples
• A Model for a Mystery Story
• Mystery Story Examples 
• Rules of the Murder Mystery

CHAPTER FOUR:  TYPES OF MYSTERIES

• The Sub-genres
• Mystery Sub-genre List
• Mystery Sub-genres with Explanations

CHAPTER FIVE:  GOT A GOOD IDEA?

• Every Story Starts with an Idea
• Ideas Start with the 5 Elements
• Playing the Game of "What If?"
• Read, Read, Read for Ideas
• What Is Your Story?
• What Is His Story?
• And Now the News
• The Things of Our Dreams
• From Idea to a Plan
• High Concept

CHAPTER SIX:  A PLAN FOR STARTING YOUR MYSTERY NOVEL

• Developing Your Plan
• Mind Mapping Your Plan
• Free-form Your Plan

CHAPTER SEVEN:  LAST THOUGHTS

• Just a Few Words, Please
• More Books on the Way
• About Ron D. Voigts

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Writing the Killer Mystery, Volume Two, Coming May 22nd

Write your Mystery Novel with Captivating Characters!!!

Let me show you how.

This second book in “Writing the Killer Mystery” provides a guide to developing Mystery Characters with imagination, depth, and personality, covering the sleuth, the victim, the killer, suspects, special characters, and the rest of the cast.

Read on for further detail. . .

Who is this for?

• Beginners wanting to learn writing a murder mystery
• Authors looking to expand writing knowledge and skills
• Writers seeking inspiration and help with writer stall-out

My philosophy

• Cover writing a murder mystery from idea to publishing in a 5 volume course
• Articles can be read in sequence or jump around as needed
• Information condensed in lists, bullets, key points, and numberings, with examples when needed
• Not just teach writing a murder mystery but inspire and stimulate the imagination

 Volume Two, Captivating Characters

• The Sleuth
• The Victim
• The Killer
• The Suspects
• Special Characters
• The Rest of the Cast

 Volume Two Highlights

• Finding the right name for your Sleuth
• Four Characteristics of a Sleuth
• Five Characteristics all the Characters share
• Backstory and Secrets
• The Victim and the Crime
• Why Victims aren’t nice
• Is it history or backstory?
• Supervillain skills
• The sidekick and two other Special Characters
• Why suspects are like the Killer
• Why suspect are not like the Killer

 This is Volume Two in a series with more books planned for release in coming months.

Coming to Amazon May 22nd!!!

Check out Writing the Killer Mystery Volume One: Great Beginnings at Amazon

Writing the Killer Mystery Volume 1 is out!

The best time to start your Mystery Novel is today!!!

Let me show you how

This first book in "Writing the Killer Mystery" series builds a strong background in the art while introducing 50 sub-genres and shows how to use the 5 Element Story Model to plan a Mystery Novel.

Read on for further detail. . .

Who is this for?

• Beginners wanting to learn writing a murder mystery
• Authors looking to expand writing knowledge and skills
• Writers seeking inspiration and help with writer stall-out

My philosophy

• Cover writing a murder mystery from idea to publishing in a 5 volume course
• Articles can be read in sequence or jump around as needed
• Information condensed in lists, bullets, key points, and numberings, with examples when needed
• Not just teach writing a murder mystery but inspire and stimulate the imagination

Volume One, Great Beginnings

• Mystery Writers and Their Sleuths
• Understanding the Mystery
• Types of Mysteries
• Getting ideas
• A plan for starting your Mystery Novel

Volume One Highlights

• Review of 10 classic mystery writers and their contributions to the craft
• The 5 Element Story Model
• Rules of the Murder Mystery Story
• The three basic types of a Murder Mystery
• Discussion of 50 sub-genres
• Seven methods to developing story Ideas
• Summarizing a Mystery with the Story Model
• Developing your Mystery Novel Plan

Watch for more books in coming months.

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