Official Blog of Candace Simar

Who is Tabor Evans?
My Score It! results also matched me with Tabor Evans, a western writer. Tabor Evans’s Longarm series–with its “new slant on the Old West”, remains one of the most popular of all the “adult Westerns” commanding an impressive part of

Who writes like David Baldacci?
The Score It! results are in. The literary analysis measured four areas of writing style for comparison: Authorial Vocabulary (voice); Expressive Complexity (choice and distribution of word lengths and expressive style); Grammar (parts of speech chosen including use of prepositional

Authors similar to Candace Simar: Who writes like me?
Who writes like me? What books in today’s market resemble mine? These questions are crucial to publishing and marketing these days, but leave me stymied. I know I want to write like Kristin Hannah or Anthony Doerr, but my frontier

Pencil to Paper 2023: Write Your Way Through Winter
Pencil to Paper: Write Your Way Through Winter! With award winning author Candace Simar We are excited to offer our third annual Pencil to Paper, a four week writing series. Give yourself the gift of writing with this casual, fun

Writing for the Truly Terrified
Writing for the Truly Terrified! Join us for a two hour fun and friendly writing workshop Thursday, April 28 from 10 to noon, CST/11-1 EST/8-10 a.m. PST. Instructor Candace Simar, Award Winning Writer REGISTER: CLICK HERE:Cost $40 Do you want

Mentor Monday and Other Fun Things
What could be better than sitting around a table with others who are also passionate about the writing craft? The mentor program started in October is a year-long program to study the basics of good writing. Once a month, five

Escape to Fort Abercrombie Releases in German and English
How amazing to see ESCAPE TO FORT ABERCROMBIE translated into German and English. THANK YOU EK-2 Publishing for supporting my work. Seeing this is a

Beta Readers at Work
I finished my upcoming book, Montana Matrimonial News. North Star Press of Saint Cloud Minnesota will release it fall of 2025. I’m encouraged by the

New Opportunites With EK-2 Publishing
Escape to Fort Abercrombie has been out of print since its publisher, Five Star Cengage, went out of business in 2022. Happily, it has been picked

The Irish Girl by Ashley Sweeney
My publicist Krista Soukup of Blue Cottage Agency recently asked me to read and review The Irish Girl by Ashley Sweeney, another Blue Cottage Agency

Sister Lumberjack Reviews
It’s wonderful to receive feedback from readers. Last night a reader from North Dakota sent me the following: “I finished Sister Lumberjack

History Through Fiction Anthology
History Through Fiction Releases New Anthology 3/1/25 and my story, Those Bereaved, is included. Yay!

Escape to Fort Abercrombie Releases in German and English
How amazing to see ESCAPE TO FORT ABERCROMBIE translated into German and English. THANK YOU EK-2 Publishing for supporting my work. Seeing this is a

Beta Readers at Work
I finished my upcoming book, Montana Matrimonial News. North Star Press of Saint Cloud Minnesota will release it fall of 2025. I’m encouraged by the

New Opportunites With EK-2 Publishing
Escape to Fort Abercrombie has been out of print since its publisher, Five Star Cengage, went out of business in 2022. Happily, it has been picked

The Irish Girl by Ashley Sweeney
My publicist Krista Soukup of Blue Cottage Agency recently asked me to read and review The Irish Girl by Ashley Sweeney, another Blue Cottage Agency

Sister Lumberjack Reviews
It’s wonderful to receive feedback from readers. Last night a reader from North Dakota sent me the following: “I finished Sister Lumberjack

History Through Fiction Anthology
History Through Fiction Releases New Anthology 3/1/25 and my story, Those Bereaved, is included. Yay!
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