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Thursday, November 29, 2018

Preserving a Taste of the Past - Grape Dumplings!

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I'm sticking with our food-in-literature theme this week, Dear Reader, since food is such a big part of my Alafair Tucker Mysteries. Man...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Inspector Green's killer latkes

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This month's theme on Type M is food recipes as they figure in our books. Thanks, Rick, for this idea! I actually like the idea of havi...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Recipes into the future

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by Rick Blechta Yesterday Aline wrote something in her post that really resonated with me. It was also the main topic of the comments to ...
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Monday, November 26, 2018

Cooking the Books

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Following on from Rick's suggestion to share our characters' favourite foods, I've been really enjoying the recipes that the oth...
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Saturday, November 24, 2018

Bookended by Fifty Years

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Like most of you out there, I struggle to read what I should. The latest books I've managed to move off my TBR stack include one that I ...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

Gratitude Past and Present

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Happy Thanksgiving all readers everywhere. What could be a bigger blessing than a free press and the right to read anything we want? My...
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Thursday, November 22, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving from Copenhagen

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We are in Copenhagen this week visiting my daughter, who is studying (or that's what she claims) abroad this semester. Copenhagen seems ...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Some Like It Raw

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Ever since Rick challenged all of us Type Mers to come up with food that plays a part in our stories, I’ve been thinking about what kind of ...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018

In praise of the writing retreat

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by Rick Blechta I woke up this morning to find a winter wonderland outside. This being Canada, it is no serious snowfall, just a light du...
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Monday, November 19, 2018

Food and Mood

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Since Rick has us exploring recipes, I’m going to add one at the end of this blog. First off, I do all the cooking around in our household...
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Saturday, November 17, 2018

Weekend Guest C. Michele Dorsey

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We're delighted to welcome C. "Michele" Dorsey to Type M. Michele is the author of No Virgin Island and Permanent Sunset in ...
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Friday, November 16, 2018

Type M Recipe Challenge

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I know I said my November posts would be about doing NaNoWriMo. But I don't have anything else I want to say right now. I'll let you...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

The Recipe Challenge - War Cake!

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Today I am rising to Rick's food-in-novel challenge, an easy challenge for me to meet, for thirteen years ago, I was not more than t...
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018

Sometimes grandma does know best

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Barbara here. During the past week there have been some interesting posts about how we writers manage distractions like email, social media...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2018

A new Type M for Murder project proposal!

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by Rick Blechta I really enjoyed Aline’s post yesterday . Being a musician by training, of course I worked in the restaurant trade along t...
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Monday, November 12, 2018

Food in Fiction

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How important is it in a book to know what the characters eat? Does it shed a light on their characters? Or do they even eat at all? I was...
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Saturday, November 10, 2018

Concentration?

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Vicki Writing (not exactly as shown) By Vicki Delany The topic the week seems to be concentration. How do we concentrate in a busy...
Friday, November 09, 2018

Self-Sabotage

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The posts on coping with distraction by my fellow Type M'ers really hit home. I've been wrestling (or at least toying) with the ...
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Thursday, November 08, 2018

Distractions, you say. Where was I?

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I read Rick’s and Thomas’s excellent posts this week and had to cringe. Not because I dispute anything they say; but, rather, the opposit...
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Wednesday, November 07, 2018

CREEP And Other Unfortunate Acronyms

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Recently, I’ve been watching the new History channel documentary on Watergate. I vaguely remember watching the hearings on TV when I was a k...
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