Saturday, March 09, 2019

WRITERS RITUALS

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By Vicki Delany Next Saturday (March 16) I’ll be at Murderous March, a conference put on by The Upper Hudson Chapter of Sisters in Cri...
Friday, March 08, 2019

My First Conference

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Frankie here. I don't have time to write a blog post today because I'd busy at school with our visiting student weekend. So I'd ...
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Thursday, March 07, 2019

My First Reader

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 I have been fascinated with a thread that has been running on this blog for the past week, beginning with guest poster Annie Hogsett'...
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Wednesday, March 06, 2019

Who's this story for anyway?

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This week's post is of necessity very short because I am currently otherwise busy with the birth of a new grandchild and the joys of he...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Know what makes a good book cover and why?

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by Rick Blechta Every author, whether your books come from a traditional publishing house or published by you from your own house, is goin...
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Monday, March 04, 2019

The Reader Avatar

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There is definitely something very spooky going on at Type M.  It is quite uncanny, the number of times I have had an idea for my blog only ...
Saturday, March 02, 2019

Annie Hogsett, Guest Blogger

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Type M is thrilled to welcome Annie Hogsett as our guest blogger this weekend. Annie has a master’s degree in English literature and spent ...
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Friday, March 01, 2019

Uncomfortable Situations

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Last Sunday a gave a talk to a book group in Denver. I knew the hostess and her husband well. They were old friends. I was not dis...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

The Arc

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I’ve been thinking about the arc of a character a lot lately. About the ways my characters will seek and find redemption. About how the st...
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Cozies and the Death Penalty

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I turned my fifth book, GHOSTS OF PAINTING PAST, in to my publisher last week actually on the day it was due. I wasn’t convinced I’d be abl...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Park your ego at the door

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by Rick Blechta Tom’s excellent post from yesterday got me thinking about something every author has to deal with and the importance of d...
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Monday, February 25, 2019

How I Found My Agent

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Recently, I attended a Carteret County Writers Network luncheon and listened to a delightful author talk about her writing process and publi...
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Saturday, February 23, 2019

These Kids Are Murder

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Sometime back, Lighthouse Writers Workshop invited me to lead a class in their Young Writer's Program. Because of my background in writi...
Friday, February 22, 2019

Lots to Comment On

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As always, by the time my Friday comes up, my blog mates have written at least half-a-dozen posts I'd like to follow up on. So today, I ...
Thursday, February 21, 2019

What If...

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This coming Sunday, Feb 24, at 2:30 p.m., I (Donis) will be teaching a free class at Tempe, Arizona, Public Library on research for wri...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

A question of just desserts

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Aline has written a terrific and thought-provoking post on the question of the death penalty in detective fiction. In jurisdictions that sti...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

The Death Penalty

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'They hate executions, you know.  It upsets the other prisoners.  They bang on the doors and make nuisances of themselves.  Everybody...
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Friday, February 15, 2019

Three of Them Waiting

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      John Corrigan's post about starting his students thinking about beginnings for books and stories reminded me of a terrifi...
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Thursday, February 14, 2019

Collision

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This is one of those weeks when my day job (teaching) collides with my other job (writing). And the crash has me thinking about en media res...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Googleganger and Dracula Sneeze

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With less than a week to go before my deadline, I’m finally seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and it’s not an oncoming train! On m...
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