Thursday, April 30, 2020

All The Things I'm Going to Do

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Here's a list of some of the things I've resolved to do during the quarantine: Make pancakes. Learn Italian. Get back to my ...
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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Pandemic hurdles

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Recent posts (including my own) have noted that the pandemic has changed our work as writers in many ways. For many of us, our concentratio...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Ahoy, Mateys! I be here with news of great import.

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By Rick Blechta I’ve got more on the whole non-permission book piracy thing. First off, I heard back from Linwood Barclay. I won’t s...
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Monday, April 27, 2020

Be careful what you wish for.

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 'We would be sorry if our wishes were gratified.' Aesop. 'Beware, my lord!  Beware lest heaven hate you enough to hear your p...
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Saturday, April 25, 2020

Day what? Week what? And wealth that never happened.

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I imagine a lot of you are like me, stuck in this lockdown with the passing time smearing into a blur. Here in Colorado I think we're in...
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Friday, April 24, 2020

Mind For Rent

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This morning I looked up all the details for Clay's Compromise of 1850. It has five parts. I forget what they are already. Also, I'm...
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Thursday, April 23, 2020

To write the pandemic into your book or not to write the pandemic into your book.

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That, in essence, is the thought-provoking question Thomas Kies raises in his post Pandemic...writing it into your work? Or not? , and it’s ...
Wednesday, April 22, 2020

Revealing Too Much

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Cozies are my comfort food and my favorite kind of mystery. As you might guess, I’ve been reading a lot of them lately. Most, if not all, ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

My continuing tale of piracy woe

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by Rick Blechta Here is the email I sent on April 15th in response to their original email that said “lending access has been disabled ...
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Monday, April 20, 2020

Pandemic...writing it into your work? Or not?

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I’m facing two problems with my newest writing project. One: Should I incorporate the pandemic into my plot?  Should I make reference to i...
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Friday, April 17, 2020

Settling Into A Routine

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Like everyone else, I've been trying to adjust to being home-bound. Yesterday, I tried my hand at making a mask so that I could go out. ...
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Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Hermit Life

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Welcome to my house It's interesting to see how everyone is handling their enforced isolation during this strange and unusual time....
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Writings from the pandemic

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I am almost two thirds of the way through the first draft of my upcoming Inspector Green novel. The contract for this book was signed somew...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2020

An update on piracy and other things

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by Rick Blechta Well, I sent my email in to Internet Archive and none of my books have been taken down from their website. I guess afte...
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Monday, April 13, 2020

You Are What You Eat

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So much of our time at the moment seems to be spent on quartermaster duties. We're not in the 'shielding' group but the gove...
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Friday, April 10, 2020

Social Animals

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Late afternoon or evening I go for a walk. Usually along the Spring Creek bike trail. A couple of days ago I passed a group of neighbors ...
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Thursday, April 09, 2020

A Bleak House

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By all accounts, this is predicted to be the worst week yet in the U.S. for Covid-19 deaths. Last night, before I went to bed, I turned on C...
Wednesday, April 08, 2020

Podcasts, Anyone?

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I’ve been hearing about podcasts for years, but never thought I’d listen to one. They just didn’t interest me. Even after reading Laura Oles...
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Tuesday, April 07, 2020

A real conundrum

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by Rick Blechta One of the two publishers with which I work, Orca Publishing, sent out their usual newsletter to authors yesterday and th...
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Monday, April 06, 2020

About Heroes

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Like many of my fellow bloggers, during this time where we’re self isolating, practicing social distancing, and wearing masks to the grocery...