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Thursday, November 09, 2017

The Plot Thickens . . . and Thickens

I got some interesting feedback from my agents this past week when I sent them a novel I recently finished. The writing process was differen...

Wednesday, November 08, 2017

The Responsibility of Writers

Last weekend I participated in a cozy mystery panel with Sue Ann Jaffarian, Jane DiLucchio and Diane Vallere at the La Mirada Library in La ...

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Weasel words

by Rick Blechta I have a good friend (and excellent editor), Cheryl Freedman, who is kind enough to look over the final versions of my nov...

Monday, November 06, 2017

Step away from the keyboard!

I love walking. Not your power or ultra extreme stuff, just your straightforward amble in a wood or meander along a shore. But unt...

Saturday, November 04, 2017

Guest Post: Nancy Cole Silverman

Please welcome Nancy Cole Silverman back to Type M. Nancy and I share the same publisher, Henery Press, and are also both members of the Los...

Friday, November 03, 2017

Writing Different

As I mentioned, this year I'm taking part in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I'm not sure if I'm going to reach the 5...

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

Awards, love 'em or hate 'em?

Recently the Globe and Mail published an article about the plethora of literary awards springing up in Canada, often with a large amount o...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

What is a novel’s most essential ingredient?

by Rick Blechta Lately I’ve been starting crime fiction novels, reading around 50 pages and then putting them down. This is not usual for ...

Monday, October 30, 2017

CWA Daggers Dinner

I'm just back from the Daggers Dinner, the big event of the Crime Writers Association year when the celebrated Daggers are awarded for t...

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Generation NaNoWriMo

Lately I was invited to speak, along with two other local authors-- Cheryl Carpinello and Jerry Fabyanic --about our experiences as profess...

Friday, October 27, 2017

Surprise!

Actually this meet the author poster from Poisoned Pen Press is the way I looked and felt by the time I finished my Kansas Tour this ...

Thursday, October 26, 2017

What’s My Back-Story?

John, here. On the heels of Donis’s insightful Oct. 19 post , I’m going to follow with a discussion of a technical aspect of fiction writin...

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Halloween in My Neighborhood

I'm in the middle of writing a story set around Halloween in my fictional town of Vista Beach. (Aurora Anderson #4) Whenever I walk arou...

Monday, October 23, 2017

Will the real writer stand up?

I used to think that ghost writers only wrote for people who were not writers, such as footballers, reality TV stars, ce...

Friday, October 20, 2017

Why We Write

On Tuesday evening, I was honored to be the guest author at the Literacy Volunteers of Rensselaer County Authors Night. This is an annual ev...

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Then She Said...

Since mid-September, I, Donis, have been facilitating a creative writing workshop for emeritus professors at Arizona State University. T...

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

Bouchercon reflections

Bouchercon, the world's largest mystery conference, held its latest annual crimefest this past week from Wednesday to Sunday. The 2017 ...

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Another (and logical) benefit of a library

by Rick Blechta I think I may have posted about this, but not within the past several years. (When you’ve been here pretty well weekly s...

Monday, October 16, 2017

Proper Libraries

Marianne has really sparked something off with her post about a digital library. Personally I feel quite sad at the thought. Speaking as som...

Saturday, October 14, 2017

Rapid Reads Novellas

by Vicki Delany Rapid Reads Novellas At the end of this month, Orca Press will be releasing my fifth novella for them, White Sand Blues....

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