Wednesday, November 04, 2015

Hearing voices

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Barbara here. Last week, John Corrigan wrote a thoughtful blog about empathy, and specifically about the challenge of slipping into the sho...
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Tuesday, November 03, 2015

Well, we made it! Or did we?

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by Rick Blechta Late yesterday afternoon at 4:52 EST, the page view counter on Type M for Murder clicked past 500,000. Champagne corks wer...
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Monday, November 02, 2015

The Back List

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How often do you re-read your published books? There was a wonderful admission from PD James that when she was going to the US to talk to ...
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Saturday, October 31, 2015

Guest Post: Sue Ann Jaffarian

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Please welcome prolific author Sue Ann Jaffarian to Type M. I’ve lost count of how many books she’s had published since I first met her at a...
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Friday, October 30, 2015

A Two-Handed Clasp

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She's very famous. Wins about every award out there. People line up to buy her books. She's every bookstore's favorite becau...
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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Writing empathy

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I'm a six-foot-one, straight, white male, who 30 pounds ago was a college athlete, and am a guy who usually votes Democrat. The characte...
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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Go Team Cozy!

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Last week I participated in a Cozy v. Noir Mystery Author Smackdown with other Sisters in Crime/Los Angeles and SoCalMWA members. Part of t...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Nearing a MAJOR milestone!

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by Rick Blechta Sometime in the next week (possibly even today if a gazillion people show up to read this post), our little mystery writin...
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Monday, October 26, 2015

Life Writ Large In Christmas Town

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By Vicki Delany I have a new book coming out next week. What, another new book! you say. Yup. Another one. My fourth this year. What...
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Saturday, October 24, 2015

New York, New York!

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I'm on a seventies retro kick lately. Those times were the formative years of my adolescence and early adulthood, and I don't have f...
Friday, October 23, 2015

George By Any Other Name

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Frankie here. The subject of naming characters has come up here on occasion. In fact, I probably bring it up more than anyone else. Well, I&...
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Thursday, October 22, 2015

Did I Forget Something? Or, Launching a New Book.

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Donis here. I've been carrying on about the upcoming launch of my new book, All Men Fear Me , for months. I've mentioned before on t...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Politics and the Arts

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Barbara here. In case you haven't noticed, we Canadians have been a little distracted of late. Moreover, that little alert on my Apple C...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

I am numb

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We had a federal election yesterday here in Canada. I am completely rung out from the whole 78-day campaign and then watching the results. I...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

The Effects of Weather

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We have just seen American friends off on a tour of the Highlands. It's always a nervous business when visitors to your country for the ...
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Saturday, October 17, 2015

Geese and Graves and Other Writerly Concerns

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The husband and wife team of Mary Reed and Eric Mayer published several short John, Lord Chamberlain detections in mystery anthologies an...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Judging a book by its cover

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What's in a book's cover design? Lots, according to 15-year-old Alyssa. "I think that's cool," she said, looking at ...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Eat Dessert First

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Today is National Dessert Day. So here are some pumpkin spice blondie bars made from the recipe on the back of the Toll House pumpkin morsel...
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Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Finally! A chance to be positive.

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By Rick Blechta In searching around for a topic to write on this week (and the lateness of publishing this post will demonstrate how lon...
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Monday, October 12, 2015

Leave me Alone, she cries in despair!

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By Vicki Delany Rick’s post last week about the decreasing complexity of our language, reminded me of something else that’s been bugging m...
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