Monday, December 31, 2018

New Year's Resolutions--Makin' Them, Breakin' Them.

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Are you planning on making any New Year’s Resolutions? Maybe to get that first draft finished? Perhaps to catch the attention of that litera...
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Friday, December 28, 2018

The Default Setting

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Sorry I'm late today. I'm getting a slow start because I was up late last night and slept in. Because I'm on intersession schedu...
Thursday, December 27, 2018

Casting My Movie

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Happy Holidays, everyone. I hope your Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanza was wonderful, and allow me to wish you a wonderful New Year's Day and a...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Holiday thoughts

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Today's blog will be brief, because I have a house full of family, so there are dinners and dishes and presents, oh my. Today is the da...
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Monday, December 24, 2018

Happy Christmas

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I'm writing this surrounded by the suitcases, presents and various comestibles of a festive short, ready to set off on our journey to th...
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Saturday, December 22, 2018

2019 Looking Glass

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Time to recap 2018 and gaze into the looking glass for 2019. This last year gave me plenty of reasons to celebrate. I published two books,...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Casting The Aurora Anderson Mysteries

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It’s been fun to see the recent Type M posts on the actors my fellow writers would cast in the movie version of their books. I thought I’d g...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

It’s a wonderful thing finding a new author

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by Rick Blechta I play in a big band and the guy who plays next to me in the trumpet section is a huge crime fiction reader. He’s always t...
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Monday, December 17, 2018

Twins, the Holiday, and Pushing Laundry Up the Steps

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I’d like to start out this blog with holiday news on the family front.  My daughter, Jessica, and her husband, Josh, have struggled for year...
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Saturday, December 15, 2018

Guest Post - Jean Briggs

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Aline here.  I'm delighted this week to introduce you to my friend Jean Briggs.  She is clever and witty and as an English teacher amu...
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Friday, December 14, 2018

How My Characters Will Spend the Holidays

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It's 11 days before Christmas, And not a gift has been bought. No decorations are hanging, No tree has gone up, But the writer is pl...
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Thursday, December 13, 2018

It's All Gravy

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Donis here, facing a conundrum...what to write today. My blogmates have introduced so many interesting topics over the past weeks. I'm r...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

From page to screen

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What a fun topic Aline introduced in her post Monday! Most of the past week's Type M posts have touched on the business of writing in s...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Holiday Movie Entertainment

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by Rick Blechta I had an interesting conversation with a friend this past week about favourite Christmas movies. Like many, my favourite f...
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Monday, December 10, 2018

The Interpreters

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A question I'm often asked is, if my books were to be filmed (I should be so lucky!) which actress would I want to play my detective?  I...
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Saturday, December 08, 2018

Coconut Cupcakes

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by Vicki Delany Late to the party as usual, but I loved Rick’s suggestion of us putting some recipes from our books up on this blog. ...
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Friday, December 07, 2018

The Rise of the Foodies

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The Type M'ers have gone temporarily nuts. Suddenly instead of discussing really cool ways to murder people some sort of fatal attra...
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Thursday, December 06, 2018

And so the waiting begins.

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The real Keeley in Copenhagen The waiting. A holding pattern. I finished the first book in what I hope will be a new series, one set at ...
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Wednesday, December 05, 2018

Have Book, Will Travel

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I recently went on a mini bookstore tour with Ellen Byron (author of the Cajun Country Mystery Series) and Nancy Cole Silverman (author of t...
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Tuesday, December 04, 2018

Bouncing off Tom

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By Rick Blechta First, read Tom’s excellent post from yesterday . Even if you’re not a writer, you will find it interesting. His post lays...
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