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Saturday, February 27, 2021

Remembering a Mentor

I was talking with my sons about the value of mentors in your professional development. I mentioned that it was something that I hadn't ...

Friday, February 26, 2021

Did I learn?

I'm working my way through my pile of paper. I'm not talking about an innocent little inbox. My pile is the accumulation of stuff f...

Thursday, February 25, 2021

A Writer’s Reprieve

So I’m building something from scratch. From the ground up. No, not a novel. That would be much easier. It’s an online summer writing instit...

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Getting Motivated to Write

As Rick noted in his blog post yesterday, a lot of writers are dealing with the psychological effects of Covid these days. Some writers I ...

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Eureka!

By Rick Blechta First off, sorry about missing last week. (I’m sure you were all sitting around tapping your feet impatiently for Blechta’s ...

Monday, February 22, 2021

Ink In Her Veins

By Thomas Kies The headline in my county’s Sunday newspaper is “Nothing to See Here”, referring to the efforts of local politicians to get ...

Friday, February 19, 2021

Upcoming Events

I finally got my Friday right. With the beginning of spring semester and half a dozen other things happening, I've been lagging behind ...

Thursday, February 18, 2021

This and That

Is everyone all right, weather-wise and pandemic-wise? Here in southern Arizona where I live, it's sunny and 66ºF today, which is our r...

Wednesday, February 17, 2021

#IReadCanadian

Today, despite two days' worth of calendar alerts, I forgot about my Wednesday Type M post. Since the day is now half over and I don...

Monday, February 15, 2021

Always a good day for a Bad Day

I have only recently been introduced to the joys of streaming movies. My internet connection previously had not even realised the 21st Centu...

Friday, February 12, 2021

Will Rogers Award

Last Saturday I received the Will Rogers Memorial Silver Medallion for The Healer's Daughter. I was simultaneously thrilled and simply...

Thursday, February 11, 2021

Thou Shalt Dwell

I enjoyed reading Thomas Kies’s post Thou Shalt Hoard Notebooks , partly because I love Stephen King (I’m a Mainer, after all), and partly b...

Wednesday, February 10, 2021

You Know You're A Mystery Writer When... Part 2

By Sybil Johnson In June 2016, I wrote a post here on Type M on indications you might be a mystery writer. I think it’s time for the next r...

Tuesday, February 09, 2021

Making lemonade out of lemons, Part 497

By Rick Blechta I’ve been thinking a lot about what it must be like to be sentenced to prison. It doesn’t have to be maximum security, just...

Monday, February 08, 2021

Thou Shalt Hoard Notebooks

By Thomas Kies Starting today, I’ll be teaching my Creative Writing Class again for the next six weeks. I always start the first class wit...

Thursday, February 04, 2021

Publication Day

My twelfth novel, Valentino Will Die , dropped on February 2, Groundhog Day, but it was hardly a deja vu launch. Instead of being able to in...

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Planning a virtual book launch, Part 2; no hair left but was it worth it?

Barbara here, still alive to tell the tale. This post is the sequel to my Part 1 post two weeks ago, which you can find by scrolling through...

Tuesday, February 02, 2021

Book Restoration

by Rick Blechta A good year or two ago I posted some videos about how leather-bound books are made and restored. Since we all enjoy books, I...

Monday, February 01, 2021

What's the score?

Happy Monday from Douglas in Scotland. One of the many common questions put to authors is whether they listen to music while they write. I ...

Friday, January 29, 2021

Tech Blues

Yesterday I had another frustrating encounter with technology. The video trial period had run out on my Ring Doorbell. I received notice th...

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