Type M for Murder

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Monday, October 02, 2017

Saved From Myself

I'm just in the process of going through the copy-editing for my new book, Human Face , which comes out in January. It's always a st...

Saturday, September 30, 2017

Why on earth do writers write? Guest blogger Priscilla Masters

Born in Halifax (UK), the third of seven children adopted by an orthopaedic surgeon and his wife, a Classics graduate, Priscilla Masters h...

Friday, September 29, 2017

Author Speed Dating

I'm lucky to be included in an author speed-dating event at Bouchercon. The email I received asking about it contains terrific informati...

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Jury Duty

I spent most of last week on jury duty in downtown Los Angeles at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. That’s 18ish miles awa...

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

The agony and ecstasy of writing

by Rick Blechta Boy, did Marianne’s post of yesterday ring a lot of bells for me. This post’s title says it all as far as I go perso...

Monday, September 25, 2017

Taking dictation from God?

The Scottish novelist Muriel Spark (of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie fame) once likened writing to taking dictation from God, as if the ...

Saturday, September 23, 2017

Follow Your Heroes

Once in a while, I get asked to speak to young people about writing as a profession. When the time comes to offer career advice, I ask them,...

Friday, September 22, 2017

Continuing Education for Writers

I had two ideas for today's post that are intertwined. The first idea occurred to me when I was thinking about a brief exchange I had ...

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Meet the Author

I'm not really here today, Dear Reader. I am currently sitting in a hospital room at Banner Desert Hospital after my long-suffering h...

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Libraries as inspiration

This past weekend, I had the good fortune to be an invited author to do a reading at the Halifax Word on the Street Festival. For its size,...

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

How do you get ahead these days without lying — or at least stretching the truth?

by Rick Blechta Okay. I promise to stop writing blog posts about Bouchercon (but I may be lying — or stretching the truth). Being so, ...

Monday, September 18, 2017

Too Smart For Our Own Good

Mapping DNA was one of the smartest things scientists have ever done. It has been a gift to the criminal justice system, freeing the wrongly...

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Guest Post: Kathleen Valenti

Please welcome fellow Henery Press author Kathleen Valenti to Type M. I met Kathleen at Malice Domestic last year and had a lovely conversat...

Friday, September 15, 2017

The New Mystery

The other day I had a lengthy wait in the post office line. Most of my fellow detainees were gazing at their cell phones. Lines used...

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

We Love Libraries!

I started a new volunteer position recently with Sisters in Crime. It’s been about 6 years since I completed 6 years on the board of the Los...

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

The zen of cooking and writing

by Rick Blechta We’re just pulling into the finish line of our annual canning, pickling and preserving binge. It's a lot of work, bu...

Monday, September 11, 2017

Are we losing the plot?

I'd like to take a moment to welcome our newest member to the Type M for Murder family, Marianne Wheelaghan. A brief bio is in the right...

Saturday, September 09, 2017

Body on Baker Street: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery

By Vicki Delany Ta Da! On Tuesday Sept 12, Crooked Lane Books will release the second in my Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series , Body ...

Friday, September 08, 2017

Long, Short, or Both

I can now go to the EQMM website and see my short story, "The Singapore Sling Affair," listed in the next (November/December) iss...

Thursday, September 07, 2017

Ten Books Later...

Alafair #1 Alafair # 10 When I first began writing the Alafair Tucker Mystery series in 2003, I had a story arc in mind that was goi...

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