Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Memorial Day

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 I prefer to write this column the day before it's due. But all my work has been overshadowed by the massacre in Texas. Our whole countr...
Monday, May 30, 2022

No Appropriate Words

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 By Thomas Kies I’ve been wrestling with the topic for this particular blog for a couple of days now.  It’s not unusual for me to struggle f...
Saturday, May 28, 2022

A New Time for an Old Read

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 As a writer, I advise newbies to read, read, read, and I find myself laboring to abide by what I'm telling others to do. My excuse is t...
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Friday, May 27, 2022

The People We've Never Met

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Ray Liotta died this week. We had never met, but I felt the blow to my heart when I saw the headline. Dead at 67. A secret illness? A mob hi...
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Thursday, May 26, 2022

This Is Not How It Was Supposed to Turn Out

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 Donis here. It's Wednesday afternoon, and I've been sitting in front of my computer for an hour, trying to muster the energy and th...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

In celebration of mystery conferences

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 One of the most unexpected and gratifying side effects of writing mysteries has been the discovery of the mystery community. Other genres h...
Tuesday, May 24, 2022

Letters, etc.

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by Charlotte Hinger Several years ago, The New Yorker ran a hilarious column written by Heather Havrilesky. It was entitled "How to Co...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Dog Day Afternoons

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I've been thinking of memories and how they lie dormant until something resurrects them, sometimes like a butterfly emerging from the pu...
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Thursday, May 19, 2022

Beginnings and Endings

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This week is full of emotions: It’s my final week as an employee and resident of Northfield Mount Hermon School. We are moving to Detroit Co...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2022

Creating Likable Characters

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  by Sybil Johnson When my first book in the Aurora Anderson mystery series, Fatal Brushstroke , was bought by my publisher they told me a ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2022

Ode to Joy

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  Katelyn Bieker Boy, am I ever proud. My youngest grandchild graduated from Colorado State University Saturday with a major in Biological S...
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Monday, May 16, 2022

Plot Twists in Fiction--Good. In Real Life--Not So Much.

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 By Thomas Kies As I write this, my wife and I were supposed to be on an exploration day in Vancouver.  Then, the following day, we were sup...
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Friday, May 13, 2022

Going Somewhere Slow

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 She's back!  It's me (Frankie), and after missing at least three or four alternate Fridays, I'm getting back to posting. I blam...
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Thursday, May 12, 2022

It's a Mystery

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Passing on my vast wisdom ... kind of After finishing three installments of my new Bianca Dangeruse Hollywood Mystery series, set during the...
Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Getting to the end

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 As usual, I loved Douglas's Monday blog. When my turn on Type M looms and I have no idea what to blog about, I read the blogs immediate...
Tuesday, May 10, 2022

May Misery

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 Well, here I am. It's Mother's Day and my daughter, Michele and her husband Harry, invited me over for a lovely meal. My granddaugh...
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Monday, May 09, 2022

The blank page

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 Every piece of writing begins with a blank page. Whether you use technology, pen, pencil, crayon, quill or a stick in the sand, you are fac...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2022

Malice Domestic Recap 2022

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  by Sybil Johnson I recently attended Malice Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland at the Bethesda North Marriott (really it’s in Rockville, Maryl...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

Mother of All Plotting Books

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Years ago, when I was learning to write, I ordered writing books from Interlibrary Loan. One on plotting was clearly superior, so I bought i...
Monday, May 02, 2022

Writing in a Hotel Room?

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 By Thomas Kies We just got back from New York City this weekend and I have all those mundane things that need to be done…laundry, finish un...
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