Monday, October 03, 2016

Do You Like What You Hear?

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Are you happy with your audio book? Does the reader give the right voices to the characters you have so lovingly created and lived with for ...
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Saturday, October 01, 2016

Blowing My Own Trumpet

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Aline here. I'm delighted to introduce you today to Marianne Wheelaghan. She's another Scottish writer, but having spent some time i...
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Friday, September 30, 2016

The Fine Art of Pacing

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I finished a really, really fast-paced novel a couple of days ago. The characters were interesting and well-developed, the plot hung togethe...
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Thursday, September 29, 2016

What’s in a book signing for a mid-lister?

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Book signings are tough and getting tougher, according to most bookstore owners I meet. Attendance is down, people are ordering online more ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Random Thoughts on Libraries and Books

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We’re having a September heat wave here at the beach, not conducive to thinking. So today you get random thoughts on libraries and books, th...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

I know this is late…

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by Rick Blechta I’m well behind my time once again this week, but it has been an extraordinary day in a number of most excellent ways. ...
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Monday, September 26, 2016

What do do with All Those Tomatoes

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by Vicki Delany Looks like I’m out of step again.  We’re talking about libraries on the blog, but I’m giving you a recipe for tomato ...
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Saturday, September 24, 2016

Winding down summer 2016 with a new book

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Last month I was in Albuquerque for Bubonicon 48 . The event was originally known as the New Mexico Science-Fiction/Fantasy Convention. The ...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Libraries and the World

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I'm been reading the wonderful stories my colleagues shared about the libraries that played such important roles in their childhoods and...
Thursday, September 22, 2016

Louise Penny and Michael Whitehead

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I was very sorry to hear that Michael Whitehead, husband of the wonderful Louise Penny, has passed away after a long decline. I had the...
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Launch parties

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Barbara here. This blog is all about promotion, including blatant self-promotion, which is shortened to BSP in social media parlance and whi...
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016

My library reminiscences

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by Rick Blechta I hope you’ve enjoyed Sybil’s and now Aline’s memories about libraries as much as I have. Judging by the number of people ...
Monday, September 19, 2016

Happy Library Memories

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I read Sybil's affectionate post about the library she had gone to as a child murmuring 'Yes! Yes!' to myself. Libraries played ...
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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Guest Post: Ellen Byron

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Please welcome Ellen Byron, fellow member of Sisters in Crime/LA, to Type M. Her first book, Plantation Shudders , was nominated for gobs of...
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Friday, September 16, 2016

A Cold Start

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Fractured Families will be published in March and now I'm thinking about my next book. I have not decided on a title. My mysteries be...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Three Starts

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I'm writing something new, something I hope will launch a series. I've spent a lot of time pre-writing. I have an outline I like (yo...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Libraries And Events

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I’ve loved libraries ever since I was a little kid. I couldn’t wait for my parents to drive me there so I could look through the stacks of b...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

The value of learning as much as you can about your occupation (in this case, writing)

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by Rick Blechta Like all published authors, I have been buttonholed many times at parties, meetings, book signings and even once at a fune...
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Friday, September 09, 2016

Growing as a Writer

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I've been thinking about the question my colleagues have been discussing about what is required to become a competent writer -- innate t...
Thursday, September 08, 2016

Writing a Long Series

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My ninth Alafair Tucker mystery ( The Return of the Raven Mocker ) is coming out in January of 2017. That's four months from now. And ye...
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