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Showing posts with label Alafair Tucker Mysteries. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Alafair Tucker Mysteries. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2024

No Good Tale Should Go Untold

Donis here. Sometimes, we writers wonder about the ethics of using a third party’s actual life experience as a plot line. I use real events,...

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Happy Thanksgiving.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday. Eat what you want to eat, be with those you want to be with, and stay safe and healthy. For the pa...

Thursday, November 11, 2021

The Process

I, Donis, am working on a new Alafair Tucker mystery right now, and am very interested to see how it's going to turn out. I never know ...

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Go There

In my Type M entry of Sept 30, I wrote about a new monthly feature on my own website I'm trying called “Tell Me Your Story”. Thus far I&...

Thursday, September 17, 2020

The Hardest Part for an Amateur Sleuth

Donis here, still carrying on, still writing on a mystery and hoping my protagonist is smarter than I am. When I start a mystery novel, I us...

Thursday, December 12, 2019

How Could You! Or The Perils of Writing a Spin-off Series.

The Wrong Girl , the first book of my new series, The Adventures of Bianca Dangereuse , has been out for a month now, and let me tell y...

Thursday, January 24, 2019

Beginning

Donis here. How interesting that for the past few days my blogmates' entries have dealt with the terrors of beginning a new book. S...

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Casting My Movie

Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope your Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza was wonderful, and allow me to wish you a wonderful New Year's Day and a...

Thursday, November 29, 2018

Preserving a Taste of the Past - Grape Dumplings!

I'm sticking with our food-in-literature theme this week, Dear Reader, since food is such a big part of my Alafair Tucker Mysteries. Man...

Thursday, October 04, 2018

Off Into the Woods

Donis here. I've just completed the first draft of the first book in what I hope will be a new series, set in the 1920's in Cali...

Thursday, August 23, 2018

She Needs a Dog

My work in progress is beginning to take shape. This is a relief, because the WIP is the first book in what may become a new series for...

Thursday, February 22, 2018

Countdown to a Launch

This year's comfy shoes I love the discussion about fuzzy endings. I think endings are wildly important—more important that we gene...

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Late, Late, for a Very Important Date

Donis here, posting very late today because I thought yesterday was my Thursday to post and I had missed it, but then our fearless leader Ri...

Thursday, January 11, 2018

Another Year, Another Book, a Whole New World of Self-Promotion

Donis here, kicking off my new year. My tenth Alafair Tucker Mystery, Forty Dead Men , will hit the streets on February 6, 2018. You ca...

Thursday, September 07, 2017

Ten Books Later...

Alafair #1 Alafair # 10 When I first began writing the Alafair Tucker Mystery series in 2003, I had a story arc in mind that was goi...

Thursday, August 10, 2017

A Trip to the Homeland

Donis here. I would love to write about regional idioms till the cows come home, but I'll spare you, Dear Reader, and share several piec...

Thursday, June 01, 2017

The Book Lover's Disease

Don't make me choose I belong to a women's charitable organization that meets once a month, and the theme for the June meeting...

Thursday, May 18, 2017

Siblings

Donis here. I ought to be taking advantage of the last of the good weather here in Arizona, but I'm still working hard to finish my next...

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Double Brain

By the time this post comes up, I will have launched my ninth Alafair Tucker Mystery, The Return of the Raven Mocker , on Tuesday the 24...

Thursday, January 12, 2017

How We Learn to Love Books

Rick and Aline both wrote wonderful entries this week about being read to as a child. I'm sure every book-lover has a similar story. Whe...

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