Showing posts with label Poisoned Pen Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poisoned Pen Press. Show all posts
Monday, September 23, 2024

Bouchercon 2024

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 By Thomas Kies While it seems like a long time ago, it's only been a couple of weeks that I had the pleasure of attending Bouchercon 2...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2022

May Misery

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 Well, here I am. It's Mother's Day and my daughter, Michele and her husband Harry, invited me over for a lovely meal. My granddaugh...
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Monday, February 07, 2022

Opening Lines- Great Beginnings

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 By Thomas Kies With great interest, I read Frankie Y. Bailey’s blog about wrestling with the opening scene of her new work in progress. (In...
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Friday, January 14, 2022

A Nice Surprise

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 My short story, "Lizzie Noel," will be published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine . I'm simply thrilled. I had a story publis...
Monday, November 15, 2021

My Process

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 By Thomas Kies I’m going to riff off of Donis Casey’s excellent blog this week about her writing process.   Mine is best described as chaot...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

Surprise!

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  Last week I picked up Thomas Kies's book, Shadow Hill , when I was in Barnes and Noble. I was delighted to see it prominently displaye...
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Monday, April 05, 2021

Announcing the Reissue of My First Book, RANDOM ROAD.

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They say that writing a book is a little like telling a joke and waiting two years to see if anyone laughs.  I wrote my fourth book, Shadow ...
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Friday, February 26, 2021

Did I learn?

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 I'm working my way through my pile of paper. I'm not talking about an innocent little inbox. My pile is the accumulation of stuff f...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Wrong Girl? Not by a Long Shot

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My dear friend Donis Casey launched her new series this month. The Wrong Girl is the first title in the Bianca Dangereuse Hollywood Myster...
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Monday, November 04, 2019

Writers who inspired me to be a writer

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As I write this, I’m on the 11th floor of the Hyatt Regency in Dallas attending Bouchercon. Last night, I had cocktails with Michael Barson ...
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Monday, July 15, 2019

Thrillerfest XIV

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I’d never been to Thrillerfest in New York.   I’d heard it was pricy…and it is.   Of course it is, it's New York.  But it's also t...
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Thursday, January 24, 2019

Beginning

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Donis here. How interesting that for the past few days my blogmates' entries have dealt with the terrors of beginning a new book. S...
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Friday, January 04, 2019

Unofficial Start

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    I had to explain my Christmas gifts to my three daughters. No one, and I mean no one, understands what a bed jacket is anymore. B...
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Monday, October 08, 2018

Finished Manuscript

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On Sunday, October 7, at a little after noon, I hit the button and sent the manuscript for Graveyard Bay to my editor, Annette Rogers, at ...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

@#%$*** Synopsis

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I did it. I finally finished a synopsis for a l-o-n-g historical novel that actually fits on one page. The whole undertaking made me totally...
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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Weekend Guest - Janet Hubbard

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Type M is thrilled to welcome our weekend guest blogger Janet Hubbard, author of the wonderful Vengeance in the Vineyard series. So pour you...
Friday, January 08, 2016

Fried chicken

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Remember the chicken? The cartoon I couldn't scan a while back? This had such a sad sad ending. I finally got Windows 10 to upload my co...
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Saturday, May 09, 2015

Never Look Down

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Our guest this week is Warren Easley who recently became the Blog Master for Poisoned Pen Press: Warren grew up on the west coast and w...
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Friday, February 20, 2015

Let Me Go

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Let me go ye gods of manuscripts. Take this book off my mind. Shoo! Get out of my writing room. I sent off my non-fiction book this week. ...
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