Monday, May 02, 2016

The Ethics of Real Life and Fiction

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Supposing you had a friend or a family member who found themselves in a difficult position, one that was unpleasant or perhaps even dangerou...
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Saturday, April 30, 2016

Guest Blogger Leslie Dana Kirby

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Type M is thrilled to welcome Leslie Dana Kirby, whose debut novel The Perfect Game has recently been issued by Poisoned Pen Press. Leslie ...
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Friday, April 29, 2016

Country mouse/City mouse

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I grew up in the very tiny town of Lone Elm Kansas. In a real sense, Anderson County will always be "home" to me. All of my famil...
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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Fresh Ideas

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I have an idea. Really, you say. A writer with an idea. Is that newsworthy? Probably not. But it feels like a big deal to me. You see,...
Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Musings on American English

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Sybil here. As you read this, I’m on my way to the Malice Domestic conference in Bethesda, MD. I’m also finishing up Book 3 in my Aurora An...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

More rumours & a shout out to the Bony Blithe!

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by Rick Blechta Vicki Delany’s post yesterday made some very good points that need to be heard by those just starting out in the writing g...
Monday, April 25, 2016

Rumour Has It

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by Vicki Delany I’ve started hearing this a lot. I heard it again just yesterday. Beginning writers are being told that major, trad...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Writing in the Present and the Past

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Rick's post on Tuesday about the digital age and new technology struck a chord with me. I agree that as writers of crime fiction, we end...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Cover Stories

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Since All Men Fear Me came out, people are always asking me about the man on the cover, but since the publisher chose the cover and I h...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

It's party time!

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Barbara here. This is tax month, which for a self-employed artist means days spent scouring the house for all those gas, meal, and conferenc...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Embracing the digital age and other new technology

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by Rick Blechta No, this isn't an email about how everyone should learn to love their smartphone. Heck! That sort of advice shouldn’...
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Monday, April 18, 2016

Getting the Knowledge

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I enjoyed Vicki's recent post on the subject of 'write what you know'. Like her, if I only wrote what I know it would make for a...
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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Guest slot: Ruth Dudley Edwards

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 Aline here. It's my privilege today to introduce you to Ruth Dudley Edwards, distinguished  British/Irish journalist, broadcaster, biog...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

Wayward Words

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A friend asked me recently if I read fiction when I'm writing and if that interferes with my own work. No, reading while writing doesn&#...
Thursday, April 14, 2016

Looking to the Master for Solutions

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I'm 50 pages into a novel due in August (I know, don't say it), and to make matters worse, I hit a roadblock this week. I don'...
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

LA Times Festival of Books

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Last weekend I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held on the campus of my alma mater, the University of Southern California....
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Dialogue or description?

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by Rick Blechta My turn — and there’s not a lot of time for me to write anything today due to work, so this will have to be brief. (Blecht...
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Monday, April 11, 2016

Write What You Know? Not so fast

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By Vicki Delany (Eva Gates) In her post of last week, Barbara writes about the need for the author to put themselves in another’s s...
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Saturday, April 09, 2016

Brenda Chapman on keeping it all straight!

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Please welcome this weekend's guest blogger, my good friend and fellow Ottawa mystery author, Brenda Chapman. A prolific author equall...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

Painful Distractions

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I'm writing this in pain. Yesterday I wore heels with a pointed toe. Today (Thursday) I switched to heavy, laced shoes. Somewhere betwee...