Thursday, April 28, 2022

From Real Life

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 For the past several months I've been hosting authors on my own website in a feature called Tell Me Your Story. I ask my guests to let ...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

In celebration of independent bookstores

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 Barbara here. I am devoting today's blog to independent bookstores, because April 30 is International Independent Bookstore Day. It...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Really Good Liars

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 by Charlotte Hinger I once enjoyed watching a TV show called Lie to Me. It wasn't violent and the concept was fascinating if for no oth...
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Monday, April 25, 2022

Just when you thought history was a thing of the past

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 Some of you may remember the secret project I hinted at a few weeks ago.  No? What, am I typing into the void here? Don't answer that, ...
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Saturday, April 23, 2022

My Mom's Yellow Bikini

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A couple of years back I had a dream where I saw my mother in a motorboat tied to the pier of a mountain lake. She was a young woman at the ...
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Thursday, April 21, 2022

Getting out of the way

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“Sometimes the story knows what it’s trying to say, and your job is to let the story speak.” I said this to a student this morning. He had t...
Tuesday, April 19, 2022

Figuring It Out

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by Charlotte Hinger The intrepid Lottie Albright delves into old murders which causes new murders. It's not really a cold case series, a...
Monday, April 18, 2022

Cozy? Me? I thought I was Hard-Boiled!

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 By Thomas Kies The ARC for WHISPER ROOM (release date, August 2) is available now for review and a few people have already commented on Goo...
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Thursday, April 14, 2022

The Right Thing Happens

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I've been working on a new novel that is much more "noir" than previous novels I've written. I know what Noir is, but I ca...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

The Perils of Blogging

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I’m tired tonight. This blog will be very short. It’s not that I can’t think of anything at all to write. It’s that I’ve learned to be frigh...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The chaotic approach to writing

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 Writers are often asked what their work process is. I usually reply that I string the words together and sometimes even in the correct orde...
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Thursday, April 07, 2022

On the move

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This spring has been –– and will be for the considerable future –– a blur. A lifelong New Englander, I, along with my adventurous wife, have...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Malice Domestic Bound

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  It’s been quite awhile since I attended a mystery conference. The last one was Bouchercon in Dallas in 2019. I was all set to attend Mali...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Thought Police

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 When I was fifteen, my father cornered me. "Sweetheart, three of the filthiest books I've ever read were brought into the house by...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Short Chapters

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 By Thomas Kies I was recently asked by a fledgling writer about how long a book should be. I told him that the book is as long as it takes ...
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Friday, April 01, 2022

Happy April Fool's Day

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 I'm getting a late start this morning because yesterday I had exactly the kind of day Donis wrote about.  I spent much of the day on th...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Ink-Stained Wretch

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 Did you ever have one of those days? That's a silly question, I suppose. Since the dawn of 2020 all of us have been having one of those...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Return of great things

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I'm late with my post today because I got sucked down the Word Game rabbit hole. I'm up to four different puzzles, each with their o...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Genre Fiction

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 My post today is in defense of "genre fiction." It's a follow up to comments by Douglas Skelton. This is the second time I ti...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Back in time

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 Like many authors I have to do a fair amount of reading, perhaps to provide a publicity puff,  preparation for a panel or research (yeah, b...