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I'm particularly happy to have The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About San Francisco available at author Holly Lisle's site in her "Holly Shop, where the Writing Geeks Shop" (gotta love the slogan). Holly believes in paying it forward with her lessons for writers and I'm proud to have two e-books now as part of her "Worst Mistakes Writers Make..." series.

I wanted to write about San Francisco because I've lived here since 1968. I've used the backdrop myself and had reviewers comment that the city seemed like a character in the book. Like many local residents and visitors enjoy reading books set in the city, except when writers fail to check the basic details, that drives us crazy—well, crazier. In The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About San Francisco I provide some essential details to help keep writers from making outsider mistakes.

For example, you'll want to know how the physical layout of streets and hills shape life in the city and even influence the weather and the social climate. I hope this book can help writers both to avoid mistakes and also to pick up some of the "only in San Francisco" flavor of the place. There are lots of useful links to changeable things such as bridges and traffic. Anyone who's lived in this crazy city for awhile will understand why I couldn't resist throwing in some other fun stuff, such as who calls it "Frisco", who never will, and how that one little word can get you arrested.

You can also still get the first "Worst Mistakes" e-book, The 33 Worst Mistakes Writers Make About Courtroom Law.

In that e-book, I tried to cram 35 years of experience working in law offices, transcribing police interrogations, watching the legal system in action, while taking note in my spare moments of twists in the law that I could use to lend reality to plotting mystery novels.

Lately I've been learning more about e-book fiction and collaborating on a blog about it at http://ebookfiction.blogspot.com with my friend, Jaqueline Girdner, who has a brand new romantic-comedy-disaster novel What's Sex Got to Do With It coming out from SynergEbooks.com.

More E-Adventures to come!

—Lynne Murray

"30 Years Ago Today," I wrote down every book I read in an orange notebook. My web log reflects what I read then and what I'm reading now—the same week 30 years later.

The Writer to Writer Reminders: Tickles, Tips and Tricks for Writers that Jaki Girdner and I wrote, are now available in ebook form.

"Murray brings a refreshing approach to storytelling, developing realistic characters and believable relationships."
—Booklist on Larger Than Death

"Written with a rare and entertaining clarity, and unique comic imagination."
—San Francisco Examiner on Larger Than Death

"Josephine Fuller charms the reader with her wry, self-deprecating humor and her passionate defense of the underdog."
— Donna Andrews, author of Murder with Peacocks, on At Large

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