Saturday, March 04, 2017

Guest Post: Cynthia Kuhn

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It’s my pleasure to welcome Cynthia Kuhn to Type M. We met at Bouchercon when it was in L.A. a few years ago and instantly hit it off. Not t...
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Friday, March 03, 2017

Blogmates and Uneasy Comfort

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One of the delights of being included in Type M For Murder is reading the posts of wonderful writers and learning they, too, struggle and ar...
Thursday, March 02, 2017

Advance Readers

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Writing: A solitary act. A lonely profession. “I love doing signings,” a writer friend recently told me, “because everything else about the ...
Wednesday, March 01, 2017

The Courage of a Writer

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This week I’m on my annual pilgrimage to Las Vegas for the Creative Painting convention. While I’m gambling, er, painting, I thought you mi...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Your online personality

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by Rick Blechta I was driving home from an appointment this morning, heard something really intriguing on the radio (CBC) and decided to t...
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Monday, February 27, 2017

Judging a Book by Its Cover

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By Vicki Delany We talk a lot about book covers here at Type M for Murder because Rick Blechta is a cover designer (and an extremely good o...
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Getting Out of Your Own Way, or Inspiration on Its Own Terms

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I have spent the past two months doing the requisite publicity campaign for The Return of the Raven Mocker , my ninth Alafair Tucker mystery...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Inspiration on the road

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I was standing in a roadside restaurant on the side of a chaotic, dusty highway between Delhi and Jaipur yesterday when an alert popped up o...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Shifting sands in the Post-Truth Era

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by Rick Blechta “Oh, look—he must be from one of those fake-news outlets.” We are now living in the Post-Truth Era. What is going on...
Monday, February 20, 2017

Jekyll and Hyde

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This April Edinburgh is hosting the Crime Writers Association annual conference and as one of the organising committee I've had to be ve...
Friday, February 17, 2017

Year of the Rooster

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2017 is the Year of the Rooster according to the Chinese zodiac. There is something about this that appeals to me. My sign is the Drag...
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Thursday, February 16, 2017

Story Arcs and Trump

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Last week, I was asked to create a list of talking points for a television producer to use while pitching a would-be Peyton Cote TV show. Th...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Creating Interesting Characters

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I’m in the beginning stages of the next book in the Aurora Anderson mystery series so I’ve been thinking a lot lately about creating charact...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Considering the aftermath of murder

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by Rick Blechta My post this week sort of riffs off Vicki’s post from yesterday. Every crime writing author has to face how they deal w...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

Light vs Dark: Writing in different sub-genres

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By Vicki Delany Crime novels fill the entire spectrum. Everything from the lightest of cozies to the darkest of noir. Most writer...
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Saturday, February 11, 2017

This weekend's guest blogger: Lisa Black

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Type M would like to welcome back novelist Lisa Black for a second visit! Lisa Black has spent over 20 years in forensic science, first...
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Friday, February 10, 2017

A Visual Aid

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Yesterday was a snow day here in Albany. My driveway was covered and the streets (according to local news) were treacherous. I slept in and ...
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Thursday, February 09, 2017

Whither Is Fled...

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…the visionary dream? William Wordsworth asked that question. Nowadays he’d say “Where has the imaginative idea gone?” William Wordswor...
Wednesday, February 08, 2017

Confronting that vast empty space

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Hah! It worked. Barbara here, and actually on time for my Wednesday Type M blog post. Two weeks ago I posted that I was always forgetting be...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2017

False words/false meanings

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by Rick Blechta Aline’s post from yesterday may have opened a can of worms — at least it has with me. One of my greatest joys in writ...