Monday, April 30, 2018

Conference Time

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I'm just back from the Crime Writers Association annual conference, when we get together purely as a group of writers with no readers ar...
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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Till Death Do Us Part

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Like many of you, I have my favorite programs to binge-watch. At the top of my list are true-crime shows. I once spent a week dog sitting at...
Friday, April 27, 2018

The Blessings of Ignorance

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Truth is, I don't know a thing about writing. With four mysteries (soon five) two historical novels and a non-fiction academic book ...
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Thursday, April 26, 2018

The waiting

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Last Friday night, around 11:30, I finished a manuscript and sent it off to my agent. So now I wait. The book, from day 1 of conceptualiz...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Los Angeles Times Festival of Books 2018

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Last Sunday, I attended the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books held at the main campus of the University of Southern California. That’s my ...
Tuesday, April 24, 2018

On a more sombre note

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by Rick Blechta I find myself very contemplative today after the tragedy that occurred in Toronto yesterday afternoon. Those of us who write...
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Saturday, April 21, 2018

Using Location. Or Not

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By Vicki Delany We’ve been talking a lot about location here at Type M lately.  I suspect that conversation was started when I discusse...
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Friday, April 20, 2018

Working from Strength

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Something occurred to me last night as I was trying to work on several projects at the same time with one eye on my calendar and a to-do-lis...
Thursday, April 19, 2018

Keeping Up With the Times

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I’ve started a new novel and am slogging along in the jungles of the first draft. When I’m trying to get a first draft to look like s...
Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Leaping into the abyss

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John's post of last Thursday struck a chord. For me, writing the end is one of the most challenging aspects of creating a novel. Some p...
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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

The thing about computers

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by Rick Blechta I read Aline’s post yesterday, and contrary to what she said about my anticipated response, I  felt only sympathy. Co...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Gratitude

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I have an ambivalent attitude towards my computer. Actually, that's not strictly speaking true. Most of the time I mutter at it in a sur...
Saturday, April 14, 2018

Beware the Hoodlums!

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Ann Parker--science/corporate writer by day and crime fiction author by night--writes the award-winning Silver Rush historical series, fe...
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Thursday, April 12, 2018

Writing the end: How much detail do you really want?

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Writing a novel is never easy, no matter how many times you’ve done it. We hear so often the first 50 pages must establish conflicts and gra...
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Wednesday, April 11, 2018

National Library Week

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I’m at the tail end of my first round of edits for Designed For Haunting , the next book in my Aurora Anderson Mystery Series, but I’ve come...
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Location, location, location! (part deux)

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by Rick Blechta My post last week was a riff off one Aline had published the day before. The importance of setting is indisputable. ...
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Saturday, April 07, 2018

Weekend Guest Sasscer Hill

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Frankie, here. I'm delighted to welcome Sasscer to Type M for Murder. If you aren't familiar with her work, you should be.  Sas...
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Thursday, April 05, 2018

Finalist

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This coming weekend I will learn if my 2017 novel, The Return of the Raven Mocker, has won this year’s Oklahoma Book Award. I was notifie...
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Wednesday, April 04, 2018

The best and cruellest of April

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Barbara here. The arrival of spring always brings a sense of optimism and renewal especially for those of us living in the Great White Nort...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2018

Location, location, location!

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by Rick Blechta My reference photo of Loch Striven My post this week spins off what Aline was speaking about yesterday . One thing I’v...
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