Type M for Murder

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Friday, February 04, 2022

Where the Story Begins

Frankie, here. Sorry I'm late. I'm snowbound today. The dog is home from daycare, and I'm working on my class material for next...

Thursday, February 03, 2022

Revealing Character - or You Are What You Eat

I've loved the recent discussions about how much character backstory to include in a novel. This is something I have to think about qui...

Wednesday, February 02, 2022

What's in a backstory?

What interesting posts we've had on Type M recently! A theme has emerged about the development of character in mysteries, especially th...

Tuesday, February 01, 2022

The joy of reading

by Rick Blechta A few posts back, I wrote about the point where a human brain starts to unscramble a bunch of wiggly lines and how groups of...

Monday, January 31, 2022

Creating a new character and a new series

I believe I've hinted a time or two about a new series I'm embarking upon (embarking on? On which I am embarking? Ach - you know wha...

Friday, January 28, 2022

Revival of the Fittest

Today my cousin brought me an old rocking chair that belonged to my great grandmother. I was delighted! We estimated that it dated from ab...

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Same story, told differently

Four years ago, I finished my Peyton Cote contract, the publisher was in trouble, and it felt like time to turn the proverbial page. I told ...

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

More on Character Background

I read with interest Rick’s post yesterday, “How much character background is too much?” As I see it, how much character background is tol...

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

How much character background is too much?

by Rick Blechta As I read novels, especially in established series, I often find to many diverging sub-plots getting in the way of the story...

Monday, January 24, 2022

Ice, Titles, and Edgars

By Thomas Kies I’m writing this in my home office, gazing out my second-floor window over the garage, with two pairs of socks on my feet, we...

Saturday, January 22, 2022

The Mezzanine Bookstore

As a writer, I love to read and I've always loved books. I could lose myself for hours in a library or a bookstore. As a kid I accompan...

Friday, January 21, 2022

About Titles

Frankie here. Sorry to have missed my last Friday post. 2022 started before I got around to setting up the calendar that I intended to do t...

Thursday, January 20, 2022

The Perfect Word

Donis here, at last. I missed my last Thursday slot because I've been having lots of trouble with my eyes, but today is a pretty good d...

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Finding the perfect title

My apologies for the lateness and brevity of this post. Like Rick, I spent most of Monday and yesterday digging out from 47+ cm of snow (th...

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

It's all part of growing up and living in Canada…

We had a heck of a blizzard yesterday. Our driveway is about 60 feet in length in a 9-foot space between our house and the triplex next to u...

Monday, January 17, 2022

Writing is just a job, let's not get dramatic

When does being creative become a job? I'm presuming that everyone who dips into these pages is either actively involved or actively int...

Friday, January 14, 2022

A Nice Surprise

My short story, "Lizzie Noel," will be published by Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine . I'm simply thrilled. I had a story publis...

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Highs and Lows

This has been a week of highs and lows. I finished a manuscript I began a year ago, which capped a nice couple of months that saw me get a ...

Wednesday, January 12, 2022

My Year in Books, 2021

Happy New Year to everyone. I successfully made it back from a very snowy Seattle pretty much on time. Quite a feat considering how many ...

Monday, January 10, 2022

Dystopian News and Focusing on Writing

By Thomas Kies I’m an unabashed news junkie. My career for over thirty years was in newspapers and magazines so being a news geek just com...

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