Wednesday, July 01, 2015

Happy Birthday, Canada!

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Barbara here. Today is a day for unabashed, unapologetic sap. For today is July 1st, the day set aside to celebrate the creation of my count...
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015

A change of scene

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Well, I’m finally in the home stretch of completing the new novella, basically in the someone-needs-to-pry-this-from-his-fingers stage. It...
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Monday, June 29, 2015

Why?

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I have been reading with huge sympathy the soul-searching posts about the massacre in the Charleston Church. This weekend in Britain we are ...
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Saturday, June 27, 2015

Real Murder

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Our name is Type M for Murder and so I decided to tackle murder for real. This last week, the U.S. had another mass-murder, nine shot dead a...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

Spreading the Word

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Last week, I had the good fortune to do four successful book events in six days. If you follow me on Facebook, you know it was not your t...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Only 150 Words

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Writing 150 words. No big deal, right? Most of the time that’s true, but I’m talking about back of the book copy. The words potential reader...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

A few things to make you smile

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by Rick Blechta Crunch time this week for yours truly with some big graphic design jobs needing to get out the door, and my soon-to-be-don...
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Monday, June 22, 2015

Death and Despair on a Sunny Morning

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By Vicki Delany It’s Sunday June 21 as I write this, and a pleasant summers day here in Southern Ontario, although rain is expected later...
Friday, June 19, 2015

Dreams, Schemes, and Character Creation

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I've been fascinated by how often dreams have been coming up in our posts of late. As I mentioned in my last post, I learned some import...
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Thursday, June 18, 2015

A Happy Ending

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Lately, my husband Don and I, Donis, have been preparing to die. Not that either of us are currently in the process of dying. Or even fe...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2015

More on the joys of writing

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Barbara here. Aline's post of yesterday– so teasingly true– got me thinking about why on earth we writers put ourselves through what we ...
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Dream a little dream

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by Rick Blechta Dickens Dream by Robert William Buss, 1875 What we see in our “mental movie theaters” nightly is one of the strongest f...
Monday, June 15, 2015

It must be lovely to write a book

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If I had a pound, or even a dollar, for every time someone has said this to me I would have enough money not to have to write books.  They a...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Extra! Extra! Charles Benoit returns to Type M for Murder!

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Way back in the mists of time (or was it in midst of thyme?), three friends got together and one (I believe it was Vicki Delany) said, “I ...
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Thursday, June 11, 2015

Being a full-time writer (for two months a year)

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School's out. Summer's here. And my May 1 deadline for the third Peyton Cote novel ( Destiny's Pawn ) has come and gone. This is...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

You Know You're a Mystery Writer When...

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I spent last weekend at the California Crime Writers Conference in Culver City, CA. Workshops included presentations on the forensics of cr...
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Tuesday, June 09, 2015

When characters start calling you

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by Rick Blechta It’s been enjoyable reading my blog-mates’ varied thoughts on the subject of characters. Let’s face it, characters a...
Monday, June 08, 2015

Suspension of Disbelief

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By Vicki Delany I loved Aline’s discussion last week of how much we readers are prepared to suspend our disbelief when reading fiction ...
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Saturday, June 06, 2015

Thomas Turner, Guest Blogger

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Please welcome our weekend guest author, Thomas Turner. A native New Englander, Tom ran a bar in Vermont after college, then moved to New Y...
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Friday, June 05, 2015

And Then It Clicked

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Summer brings out my inner Adrian Monk – not the obsessive compulsive Monk. The Monk who worries about "the jungle out there". I w...
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