Saturday, June 30, 2018

Guest Post - Lida Sideris

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Please welcome the wonderful Lida Sideris to Type M! Lida writes the Southern California Mystery series featuring newly-minted lawyer Corrie...
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Friday, June 29, 2018

Writing as Continuing Education

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Yesterday I was thinking about a book -- a hefty volume -- that I owned years ago and probably still have on a book shelf somewhere. The tit...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

More Writers on Writing, or Misery Loves Company

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I'm having trouble with my work in progress. I'm always having trouble with my work in progress, whatever novel that may be and ...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Finding my muse

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Aline's post about chattering monkeys and accessing our subconscious connected with me on so many levels. I've always believed writ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Looks as if print books might be here to stay.

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by Rick Blechta I found an interesting article on the Penguin Random House website about book reading trends in the US. Read it by clickin...
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Monday, June 25, 2018

The External Subconscious

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I have just come back, very reluctantly, from our French holiday.  Yes I know, kicking and screaming and lying on the quay sobbing isn't...
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Saturday, June 23, 2018

A Tale of Two Books...with a bonus

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July 10 is the laydown date, to use a vintage publishing term, for the release of Blood and Gasoline , the latest anthology from Hex Pub...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Yanny v. Laurel

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I’ve finished reviewing the ARC proofs of Designed For Haunting and I’ve started on Ghosts of Painting Past . My life right now consists of...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Profound disappointment at the finish line

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by Rick Blechta Everyone likes being told a good story. They provide so much enjoyment and make the outside world melt away. If the tale ...
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Saturday, June 16, 2018

Searching for Inspiration

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By Vicki Delany THE SPOOK IN THE STACKS, published on June 12 by Crooked Lane Books, is my 30 th published book.   Wow! Seems like a...
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Friday, June 15, 2018

Setting and Social Issues

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Yesterday in her post, Donis wrote, "Setting is important to characterization." I've been thinking about that because of a bri...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

The Places We'll Write About

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I've been thinking about surroundings lately.  My own private space says a lot about me, and it's made me consider how importa...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

The embrace of summer days

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The release date of my next Amanda Doucette mystery, PRISONERS OF HOPE, is October 2, 2018. As the date nears, the promotional machine is r...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018

You can’t rely on your memory

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by Rick Blechta Aline’s post yesterday (as her posts often do) struck a chord with me. For nearly 25 years, I taught school music (ban...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Guilty/Not Guilty

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With two criminal defence lawyers in the family and my own background as a Justice as well as a crime writer, I suppose it's natural eno...
Saturday, June 09, 2018

A Gold Mine for Mysteries

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Please welcome our weekend guest, Dave Butler, an exciting new writer from British Columbia.  Dave is the author of the Jenny Willson my...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Colorado Book Awards

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My fourth mystery, Fractured Families was one of the three finalists for the Colorado Book Award in the mystery category.  The w...
Thursday, June 07, 2018

The art of the summary

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Can you summarize your novel in two or three sentences? This is a litmus test many of us use. It’s helpful, and when I can’t do it, I know I...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Writing Acknowledgments

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For most of my reading life, I’ve skipped over the Acknowledgments (or Acknowledgments, if you prefer) section in every book I read. (Dare I...
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Tuesday, June 05, 2018

Inspiration: how does it work?

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by Rick Blechta The creative process is a mystery to me. I have experience with it in two art forms — music and writing — so you’d think...
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