Friday, November 29, 2019

The Passage of Time

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I'm late today because I "slept late" and only woke when Harry, my cat, began to meow outside my closed bedroom door. His stom...
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Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving

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Impossible Pumpkin Pie It's Thanksgiving Day in the States, so instead of writing about writing today, I'm going to write abou...
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Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Catching those silly words

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On Monday I sent off the revised manuscript of THE ANCIENT DEAD to my editor, well ahead of the deadline. The revisions included some subst...
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019

Spam comments on Type M

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by Rick Blechta The time has come to do something about spam comments on our blog. I use “our” here because I (for one) consider Type M fo...
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Monday, November 25, 2019

Elegant Variation

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Mario's mention of 'purple prose' reminded me of a linked subject I'd been meaning to write about – elegant variation. I d...
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Saturday, November 23, 2019

Making a Better Human

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After his time in Tombstone, Wyatt Earp and his common-law wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus, set out for Alaska, where they ran the Dexter Saloo...
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Friday, November 22, 2019

Wrong Girl? Not by a Long Shot

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My dear friend Donis Casey launched her new series this month. The Wrong Girl is the first title in the Bianca Dangereuse Hollywood Myster...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Timeouts

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Timeouts. I don’t know what else to call these pauses. I get in a rhythm, write 50 or 75 pages of the novel I’m working on and something –– ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2019

5 in 5

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Monday marked 5 years since my first book, Fatal Brushstroke , was released. Tuesday was the release day for my 5th book, Ghosts of Painting...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Two random thoughts

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by Rick Blechta I found Tom’s post yesterday quite interesting. Here are a couple of riffs that his description of Washington inspired in...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

Thoughts From Capitol Hill

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This week I took a break from working on my fourth novel and flew to Washington D.C. where I joined a group of about fifty coastal business ...
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Friday, November 15, 2019

Writing Weather

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When I was growing up in Virginia, we lived "out in the country." Not deep country, but a few miles outside the city limits. Far e...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Another Book Launch Under My Belt

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Donis, Barbara Peters, Martin Edwards What a weird couple of weeks it's been. I've had so many things going that I'm in a c...
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Cover Design

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Covers sell books. Well, not by themselves, but covers are the "curb appeal" of books. They are what first catches the eye and ma...
Monday, November 11, 2019

How To Grow Readers

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Reading Rick's post this week about how few people are reading these days, I wanted to say that as a family we are doing our best to ...
Friday, November 08, 2019

Flogging My Way to Success

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Just can't do it folks. Can't nag my friends and family members about writing reviews of my books. I consider it an honor when so...
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Thursday, November 07, 2019

What’s in your wallet?

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This week, my audiobook is Dreyer’s English , by Random House copy chief, now NYT best-seller, Benjamin Dreyer. I listen to it at the gym, ...
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Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Bouchercon 2019 Recap

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I spent all last week in Texas, half of it in Dallas for Bouchercon, half doing a little sightseeing in Austin and San Antonio. One of the h...
Tuesday, November 05, 2019

More on travel-related reading habits

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by Rick Blechta If you’re a regular reader of Type M, you’ll know I traveled by air recently and did a bit of rough and ready research on ...
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Monday, November 04, 2019

Writers who inspired me to be a writer

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As I write this, I’m on the 11th floor of the Hyatt Regency in Dallas attending Bouchercon. Last night, I had cocktails with Michael Barson ...
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