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Tuesday, December 05, 2017

Something to tickle your funnybone

by Rick Blechta I’m really pressed for time this week and was hoping to find a bit of it to write my post but the day is already half-gon...

Monday, December 04, 2017

Water Under The Bridge

Last week a reader took a fierce dislike to a writing colleague's latest crime novel and told her so on Twitter. It was an all o...

Friday, December 01, 2017

Weekend Guest: Paul Doiron on Research into his Novels

John here. Our guest blogger this week is fellow Mainer, Paul Doiron , author of the Mike Bowditch series of crime novels set in the Maine ...

Thursday, November 30, 2017

The Holidays Are Upon Us

Thanksgiving is over for both the U.S. and Canada, which means that the holiday season is officially off and running. My husband and I had o...

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

The future as we know it...

Reader beware: Barbara's rant. On Monday, the big Canadian headline was the news of a deal between two media giants that decimated th...

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

I Like Iceland! (or Giftgiving Made Easy)

by Rick Blechta Before I get up on my Type M soapbox (always at the ready in a corner of my studio), you must read this article ( Literary...

Monday, November 27, 2017

Books Do Furnish a Room

I am rather taken by an expression, much used by the younger members of my family, 'Is it a thing?' Or perhaps, since I've never...

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Will crime fiction lose its wheels?

One of the staples of crime and crime fiction may soon disappear. I'm talking about the get-away car. To explain, the tech prognost...

Friday, November 24, 2017

The best advice?

Recently a lady posted me asking "what is the most important advice you can give to someone who is beginning to write a novel and ...

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Happy Thanksgiving

I have much to be thankful for this year. I say that every year, usually in the cliche way most of us living First World lives do. But this ...

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Thanksgiving at the Beach

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the U.S. Time for half the population to travel to visit the other half. Or that’s the way it seems, anyway. ...

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Stop the presses!

by Rick Blechta A thriller has won a major literary award! Yes, you read that correctly. Michael Redhill’s Bellevue Square won the Gill...

Monday, November 20, 2017

Tanjin Binhai Library, China by MVRDV

For my brief post today, I'd like to share the news about China's spectacular new library, the Tianjin Binhai Library in Tianjin. Wh...

Saturday, November 18, 2017

RJ Harlick: The special people I’ve met along the way

Our guest blogger this weekend is my long-time friend and fabulous Ottawa writer, Robin Harlick. Called “the queen of Canadian wilderness...

Friday, November 17, 2017

Conferences and Subplots

I intended to chime in on the discussion about setting, but last night I was thinking more about conferences and subplots. No, I'm not p...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

The Day of the Dead

I missed my post a couple of weeks ago, and it was completely by accident. I actually wrote the entry below and scheduled it for publication...

Wednesday, November 15, 2017

The devil's in the details

Barbara here. Aline's Monday post about setting serves as a springboard to mine. Great minds think alike! I too want to talk about sett...

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