Saturday, December 30, 2017

Brooklyn Wars

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  Weekend guest Triss Stein is a small–town girl from New York farm country who has spent most of her adult life in Brooklyn. She writes m...
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Thursday, December 28, 2017

My 2018 Wish for You

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Wishing you the best for 2018, from my house to yours  Donis here. Boy, 2017 was something, wasn’t it? I’m not saying what. I don’t use...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Looking back, peering ahead

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by Rick Blechta First, I hope everyone is enjoying a terrific holiday season, regardless of what you might be celebrating. Heck! With th...
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Monday, December 25, 2017

Happy Christmas

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Today I hope that all of you are far too busy enjoying the blessing of being with people you love to be sitting in front of a screen reading...
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Saturday, December 23, 2017

My Christmas Prezzie-Writing Advice Repackaged and Regifted

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For this, my last post this year on Type M, I wanted to give you all a present. In going through my archives, I discovered this forgotten li...
Friday, December 22, 2017

The Ghost of Christmas Past

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Today I've been thinking about Christmases from my childhood and some of my most bittersweet experiences. One Christmas eve my fami...
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Thursday, December 21, 2017

Christmas Lights and Second Drafts

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Christmas is upon us –– the season of good cheer, good food and drink, and time spent with close friends and family. For me, it’s also a tim...
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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Feminism, Youthquake and Complicit

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As Rick noted in his post yesterday, this is the time of year when we look back at what’s happened over the past year. It also means diction...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Maybe now, more than ever, the world needs crime fiction

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by Rick Blechta At this festive time of the year, we tend to look back at what’s happened since the previous end-of-year celebrations. I...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

Is the digital age killing the novel?

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The other day I woke up to the very un-festive headlines of “Books in Crisis!” and “Collapsing Fiction Sales!” Apparently, mo...
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Saturday, December 16, 2017

Weekend Guest J.A. Hennrikus

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I'm delighted to welcome my friend J.A. Hennrikus to Type M.  Julie writes the Theater Cop series for Midnight Ink. A Christmas Per...
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Friday, December 15, 2017

Roles and Soundtracks

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I've find this week's discussion fascinating. As someone who is an introvert and inclined to be a worrier, I am more negative than p...
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Thursday, December 14, 2017

Art, Actions, and Morality

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Like Rick ( below ), I have been pondering conundrums lately. I don’t usually express my opinions online. I have found that when it comes...
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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The horror of it all

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Barbara here. Reading the last few posts has left me with a cascade of mostly disjointed thoughts, which I will try to pull together to mak...
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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

Are you a “plus” or a “minus”?

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by Rick Blechta My wife and I have a theory about people. A person who overall has a positive outlook on life is a “plus”, and one who t...
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Monday, December 11, 2017

The Mother of Parliaments

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I had a fascinating experience last week. As one of the current directors of the Crime Writers' Association, I was invited to not one, b...
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Saturday, December 09, 2017

A Bookish Tradition with Cookies!

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By Vicki Delany Last week, Barbara encouraged you to check out the Crime Writers of Canada annual catalogue for tips on your holiday gi...
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Friday, December 08, 2017

Sorting Books

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There's no longer any rhyme or reason to my books. Not any more. When I lived in Western Kansas I had solid walls of bookcases in my...
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Thursday, December 07, 2017

Who's Awed by Virginia Woolf?

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I read Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse twice this fall, once alone and once with a class of high-achieving Advanced Placement students. ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2017

Nancy Drew and World War II

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I spent some time with Nancy Drew over the Thanksgiving holiday. I read all of the ND books when I was a kid, but I don’t remember much abou...
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