Saturday, May 30, 2015

Guest Blog: Aly Monroe

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Aline here. This time it's my pleasure to introduce you to the sharply intelligent and impressively thoughtful Aly Monroe. Aly lives i...
Friday, May 29, 2015

Touchy Situations

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There are so many things they don't tell you about when you become a writer. Recently, I've had to side-step a situation that is ver...
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Thursday, May 28, 2015

The good (little) guys and Big Macs

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I read Rick's excellent and thorough post How writing is a mirror of what is happening throughout society and was struck by how accurat...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

As Sick as a Parrot

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Sybil here. I’ve been working through the comments from my editor for my next book, Paint the Town Dead . As usual, she has many useful thin...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2015

How writing is a mirror of what is happening throughout society.

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by Rick Blechta It seems as if every day brings a new report of some corporation or other shuttering factories or closing down altogethe...
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Monday, May 25, 2015

The Perils of Technology

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By Vicki Delany I enjoyed Barbara’s post on the complications of crafting a plot around modern technology, cell phones in particular. I...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

Up and at 'em!

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Finally, after five long years, my new book is out, Rescue From Planet Pleasure. What took so long? Well, first of all, I had to write...
Friday, May 22, 2015

Finding a Character's Achilles Heel

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In the mythology of Archaic Greece, Thetis, a sea goddess, marries the mortal hero Peleus. To give their son, Achilles, immortality, she – i...
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Thursday, May 21, 2015

I Feel Your Pain...

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I, Donis, get so many ideas for blog entries from my fellow Type M-ers. When they write about their writing influences, about being over-com...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Those pesky cellphones

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Barbara here. We have all seen the park benches, restaurant tables and buses where everyone is hunched over their favourite electronic devic...
Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Old friends

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I really enjoyed Aline’s post yesterday. There are a lot of former bestselling crime writers whose literary light has dimmed over the years....
Monday, May 18, 2015

Forgotten Writers

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I've been having to work hard at my homework this past couple of weeks. CrimeFest, the huge crime festival in Britain, gathers the clan ...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Guest Post: Annette Dashofy

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Annette Dashofy is the USA Today best-selling author of the Zoe Chambers mystery series about a paramedic and deputy coroner in rural P...
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Friday, May 15, 2015

Contact the Author

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The credit for this post belongs to Heather Havrilesky who wrote a hilarious column for the "Shouts & Murmurs" page of The New...
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Plotting

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Lately, I've been thinking about story structure – how it takes shape, and how to best achieve an effective plot. This stems from two ...
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Computer Programming & Writing Mysteries, Kindred Spirits?

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Rick’s post yesterday about some of the comments he’s received when people find out he writes crime fiction made me laugh and shake my head ...
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Ah! The writer’s life for me!

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Looking at Vicki’s post yesterday and what she currently has in her job jar sort of made my head swim. If I had that kind of workload, I w...
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Monday, May 11, 2015

Overcommitted Much?

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By Vicki Delany So what do I have on my plate for the rest of this month? 1)    Editors edits for third Lighthouse Library mystery...
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, May 08, 2015

False Starts and Half-Baked Ideas

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Yesterday I dashed out of the door for a 10 a.m. appointment. I was distracted, but on the Northway (the highway in upstate New York that ta...