Friday, May 30, 2025

Using Substack for an Author Newsletter

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The cover image from my recent author newsletter on JOY. Happy Friday, Type Ms! It's Shelley, and I'm going to share a little bit ab...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

What is "Real"?

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 For the past some months I've been working on two books at a time. I'm having fun going back and forth, but I've discovered it...
Wednesday, May 28, 2025

People Watching and Persistence

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 by Sybil Johnson People watching and persistence. I’ll call them the 2 Ps. They are both important for writers. One of them gives us ideas...
Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Technically Blue

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by Charlotte Hinger  Oh yeah?  Just try spending a whole night and the rest of the next morning trying to print the right Amazon label.  I h...
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Monday, May 26, 2025

Are those people astronauts or serial killers?

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 By Steve Pease When I was a civilian engineer for the Air Force, I traveled at least once a month, mostly to LA, Washington DC, Albuquerque...
Saturday, May 24, 2025

When There Are No More Tomorrows

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 Last January I blogged about our recently adopted dog, Dirk, and that we had brought him into the household as an emotional bulwark against...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Twists and Turns

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 by Catherine Dilts As my fellow Type M for Murder authors know, these books ain’t gonna sell themselves! I’m trying to push myself out th...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Let's Talk Tropes

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by Thomas Kies  I taught a class last week on the campus of NC State University to room of fifty mystery buffs.  The subject of the talk was...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

Cover Craft: Examining Four Online Top Sellers' Covers & My Own Attempts

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A first attempt at a cover design for my upcoming long short story. Shelley here once again and wondering how two weeks could have passed so...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Are You “by accident” or “on accident”?

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 by Sybil Johnson I find languages endlessly fascinating. I’ve taken enough linguistic classes to know that they change over time. Unless i...
Monday, May 12, 2025

WHAT'S A WRITER TO DO?

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     by Steve Pease/Michael Chandos       A short one tonight, I'm afraid. I've been sick for a week with a chest cold and didn'...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Social Media self-destruction

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 I read with interest Shelley's post about the baffling and frustrating world of marketing. No author I know becomes a writer because th...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Are Conferences Business or Pleasure?

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Catherine Dilts Why would hundreds of introverts flock together? Isn’t that contrary to their very nature? When asked, most people told me...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

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  Happy Friday! Shelley here, once again, from Guam where I'm finding inspiration in the oddest places, like this moldering, broken balu...
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