Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Staring at the mountain

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 Today is the final day of August, and although summer officially ends on September 22, in reality, for most of us it ends on Labour Day. As...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

No Place Like Home

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                                                                   I'm back from North Carolina. Two of my daughters live there now. Mar...
Monday, August 29, 2022

Climbing the mountain of words

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 Neil Sedaka once wrote a song called 'One More Mountain to Climb', which was a quasi-spiritual about overcoming obstacles - not jus...
Saturday, August 27, 2022

Childbirth Without Fear

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 Memory is a tricky thing. We like to think our minds are sharp but what remains are not so much facts but impressions. So in writing this p...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Sherlock Holmes Stories

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  Sherlock Holmes. Most people probably know he’s a fictional detective. I’m not a Sherlock aficionado, but I did read all of the Conan Doy...
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Tuesday, August 23, 2022

Distracted

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by Charlotte Hinger  I'm at my daughter's house in North Carolina. It has been quite a road trip. My daughter who lives in Fort Coll...
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Monday, August 22, 2022

Death of an Author

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 The author falls to the ground, Geneva kneels next to him, gives mouth to mouth, then Mike starts chest compressions. Finally, the two co...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Summer Entertainment

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 We are still in the lazy, hazy days of summer, when many of us slow down, enjoy leisure pursuits and family visits, and generally put hard ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Sharing Research

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 by Charlotte Hinger In addition to my mystery series, I have published historical novels, an academic book, short stories, and a number of ...
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Monday, August 15, 2022

Here comes inspiration

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 Inspiration can strike writers at any time, in any place. As songsmith Paul Williams once sang, here comes inspiration, walking through the...
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Friday, August 12, 2022

Plotting the Journey

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My dog Fergus has been home from daycare alll week because he has an eye problem that seems to have started with itchy, irritated eyes. He s...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

What’s at Stake?

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“More danger,” my agent said, after we’d been discussing a draft of a novel I sent her, two weeks ago. We’d spent 30 minutes on the phone, d...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Writing Long, Writing Short

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 by Sybil Johnson Recently, I’ve been working on an essay about crafts in cozy mysteries for a book on cozies being put together by Phylli...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Can It Happen?

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 by Charlotte Hinger On my way to Kansas last month, I listened to Dissolution , Michael Gear's first book in his two-book Wyoming Chron...
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Monday, August 08, 2022

Calling Your Baby Ugly

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 By Thomas Kies When I teach my Creative Writing course at the college, I’ll bring out some of Stephen King’s tidbits of advice for writers....
Thursday, August 04, 2022

Setting

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One the past month or so I (Donis) have been trying to start a new series set in a fictional resort town patterned after Eureka Springs, Ark...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Nicodemus

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 by Charlotte Hinger Last weekend I went back to Kansas for the annual Emancipation Celebration held in Nicodemus, Kansas. I'm on the bo...
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Monday, August 01, 2022

Guns, Cannoli and offers you can't refuse

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 The most recent book I've read for no other reason than my own pleasure (distinct from books that I read ahead of events, interviews or...
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Friday, July 29, 2022

The Telling Detail

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 A couple of days ago I was reading Tangerine , a psychological suspense novel by Christine Mangan. It's Mangan's first novel and se...
Wednesday, July 27, 2022

Knowing When To Let Go

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  by Sybil Johnson I recently cancelled my subscription to the Los Angeles Times. Not a big deal, you say? I’ve had a subscription to the Ti...
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