Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Writing used to be my “safe place”

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by Rick Blechta  I’ve been around long enough to have collected a lot of writer friends. Over the course of the past several years — and thi...
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Monday, August 30, 2021

Getting good coverage

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Let's talk book covers. Very important thing, your book cover, because it's the first wave of the flag for the story you have labour...
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Friday, August 27, 2021

Are We Happy?

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The prompt for this blog was that I found my old cell phones stashed in the back of a drawer. For grins, I decided to power them up and surp...
Thursday, August 26, 2021

Sentences: The Intersection Between Reading and Writing

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This summer, I read a handful of books I enjoyed, books that landed in various ways for me. When I read, I’m highly aware of authors’ prose ...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Words, Glorious Words

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  Like most writers, I love words, especially ones that are unusual or aren't used anymore. I write down words I come across from TV sho...
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Monday, August 23, 2021

Random Thoughts on Editing

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 This blog will be shorter than usual because I’m working through the second set of edits from my publisher and I’m staring at a looming dea...
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Friday, August 20, 2021

Is It Friday?

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 Echoing Donis's post from yesterday, yes, it does feel as if time is moving much more quickly. The summer's gone. Our new grad stud...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

100 Monkeys

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An Old Fashioned Press Kit After nearly two full years of pandemic isolation,  I'm beginning to feel that my life is like a car whose br...
Wednesday, August 18, 2021

Untangling a plot

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It's Tuesday evening and I'm sitting on my dock in my Muskoka chair with a glass of wine, trying to write this blog. The scene is id...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

A sort-of fresh promotional idea

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by Rick Blechta Over the past couple of weeks there has been a lot of chatter on Type M about launching books in our Pandemic Era. Yes, it i...
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Monday, August 16, 2021

Launching into the digital ether

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Well, that's my latest book out here in the UK with as much fanfare as could be mustered in these times of pandemic. Unfortunately, said...
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Friday, August 13, 2021

A Joyful Surprise

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 My first live event since the Covid shutdown was at Fort Morgan, Colorado, a town with a population of about 1l,500. There were over 130 pe...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

Getting by with a little help from my friends & my murder book

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The summer has come and (nearly) gone, as of this writing, and it was a whirlwind. In July, I founded and directed a summer writing institut...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Writing Short Stories

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  I think of myself as more of a writer of novels than short stories. I find books easier to plot. I’m pretty much a plantser (cross between...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

Back from holidays!

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By Rick Blechta So for the past two Tuesdays we were out and about in the world, specifically on a trip to the US to visit family we hadn’t ...
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Monday, August 09, 2021

Launch Date

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Tomorrow, my fourth book Shadow Hill is officially released.  I’m having a book launch party on the patio of one of my favorite restaurants...
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Friday, August 06, 2021

Thoughts about Process

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 Frankie here. Charlotte's post last Friday about tenacity and her writing process made me think once again about "getting to finis...
Thursday, August 05, 2021

Flash! Humankind Getting Stupider

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Donis here. A few years ago, a study published in the journal Trends in Genetics postulated that once humans started living in dense agricu...
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Wednesday, August 04, 2021

The Olympian in each of us

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 Here it is, August. Where has the time flown? In my last post, I talked about the distractions caused by summer visitors and the recent rel...
Monday, August 02, 2021

Market Forces

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Howdy all - Douglas Skelton comin' at ya from the sunlit uplands of the UK, specifically Scotland. Publication week is usually an exciti...
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