The 9mm Press Writers

By Leah Erickson, Cat Connor, and Lisa Towles Hello from 9mm Press! To help you get to know all of us better, we’ve joined forces to share the quirky, convoluted intricacies of our individual writing processes – how we write, when we write, where, tools, editing, output, and other stuff. If you have topics you want to hear about, post your comments below.  Leah Erickson, Cat Connor, and Lisa Towles Do you get up early in the morning and write, or are you a night owl? Leah: I tend to write at any time, except late night. Then my brain starts logging off.  Cat: Neither! I used to be a night owl, now I’m too tired for that shit. I write during the day and in the early evening. Lisa: Late at night, definitely a night owl. Are you more energized writing in a crowded coffeehouse, or in the quiet, dark silence?  Leah: Silence! Cat: Never in silence! I have music playing when I write - but I don’t like wearing earbuds or headphones when I’m writing or for the music

In the News... Lisa Towles here, grateful to be an invited contributor to this new blog and hoping to be sufficiently entertaining on your stopover at this new site. This is a big week, as my 6th work of fiction has just been launched! That means my book is now available in Kindle, Paperback, and all kinds of other e-formats.  THE UNSEEN, an international thriller, follows the trials, challenges, and ultimate quest(s) of its main character, Boston Herald investigative journalist, Alex Careski. What's Alex Careski's problem? His wife has been kidnapped, and he blames his father, the father who vanished years ago with a family secret the size of Jupiter. The secret: the whereabouts of an ancient relic - the first page of a 1st century scroll, and the meaning and significance behind the page and its relationship to his family, his past, and his future. Through its three hundred and something pages, you will see Alex as the hunter and the hunted, traveling beyond Bos