Friday, November 19, 2021

The Sacred Process

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 I almost misspelled the title of this blog, making it "The Scared Process" rather than "The Sacred Process." Actually, ...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Processing Process

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I really enjoyed Tom’s post this week. The writing process interests me a great deal, and processing the process always leads me to more que...
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Wednesday, November 17, 2021

Seven Years Later

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 Tomorrow, November 18th, marks seven years since the first book in my Aurora Anderson cozy mystery series, Fatal Brushstroke , was released...
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Monday, November 15, 2021

My Process

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 By Thomas Kies I’m going to riff off of Donis Casey’s excellent blog this week about her writing process.   Mine is best described as chaot...
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Thursday, November 11, 2021

The Process

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 I, Donis, am working on a new Alafair Tucker mystery right now, and am very interested to see how it's going to turn out. I never know ...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Your hologram awaits

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"I'm getting too old for this s**t," I muttered to the dogs recently. I'd been trying to wrestle Instagram to the ground s...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2021

My brushes with stardom (or famous people I’ve bumped into by accident)

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by Rick Blechta I loved the post by Douglas yesterday, and having not a jot of an idea about what to write about today, I’m going to riff o...
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Monday, November 08, 2021

My brush with stardom

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I've long been a fan of actor Brian Cox, now even more recognisable than before thanks to playing Logan Roy on the TV show 'Successi...
Wednesday, November 03, 2021

What Qualifies as a Historical Mystery?

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  I’ve been working on a historical mystery lately, one set in the 1850s. So far I’ve just been doing some outlining and research. Haven’t w...
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Tuesday, November 02, 2021

A random observation about reviews

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by Rick Blechta My post last week dealt with getting reviews for one’s book. It’s common knowledge that reviews make or break books, and ge...
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Monday, November 01, 2021

Tidbits From the News

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by Thomas Kies  I worked for newspapers and magazines for over thirty years so I’m a news junkie, pure and simple.  A few stories jumped out...
Friday, October 29, 2021

Not Heaven, But a First Draft

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 In one of his dramatic monologues Robert Browning's chararacter -- an aging artist with a faithless wife -- muses, "Ah, but a man&...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Go There

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In my Type M entry of Sept 30, I wrote about a new monthly feature on my own website I'm trying called “Tell Me Your Story”. Thus far I&...
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Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Going hybrid

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Last night I hosted a virtual launch on Zoom for my new Inspector Green mystery, THE DEVIL TO PAY. At this point in the pandemic, having att...
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021

No matter how things change, they still stay the same

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by Rick Blechta I was on Amazon the other day, looking for something I needed for a modelling project and somehow got into the book section...
Monday, October 25, 2021

Do You Know the MacGuffin man?

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Let's talk about the MacGuffin. For those unacquainted with the term, it's one Alfred Hitchcock used often and an approach of which ...
Saturday, October 23, 2021

The General and Me

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Colin Powell--former US Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staffs--passed away this week. There was a plenty of discussio...
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Friday, October 22, 2021

Surprise!

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  Last week I picked up Thomas Kies's book, Shadow Hill , when I was in Barnes and Noble. I was delighted to see it prominently displaye...
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Wednesday, October 20, 2021

Seattle Fun

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  I spent last week in the Seattle area visiting my mom and sister. Had a lot of fun visiting, learning how to make lefse and doing some tou...
Monday, October 18, 2021

Kinsey Headed for TV?

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by Thomas Kies  I read an Associated Press article in my daily newspaper this morning that I found jarring.   Yes, most news stories I read,...
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