Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Shepherd.com

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  I first heard about Shepherd.com in Jane Friedman’s newsletter, The Hot Sheet. It’s a book discovery site founded a little over a year ag...
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Fake Phez Phest

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 This past weekend was the beginning of pheasant season in Western Kansas. It used to be our favorite family celebration.  It began innocent...
Monday, November 14, 2022

Changing Your Point of View

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 by Thomas Kies My last Creative Writing class of the year was last week.  I’m having lunch with my liaison at the college to discuss my nex...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

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Writing That Sings  By Johnny D. Boggs This week finds me in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the annual International Western Music Association...

Zen and the Art of Writing While Maintaining Your Sanity

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I (Donis) have had 12 novels published during my nearly twenty-year writing career and done pretty well, but I've been having some troub...
Wednesday, November 09, 2022

A crime writer's take on travelling

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 When my computer alerted me today that it was my week to post on Type M, I realized I had skipped my last Wednesday post. I doubt anyone no...
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Tuesday, November 08, 2022

No Sense of Time

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 by Charlotte Hinger The first time I bit off more than I can chew was when I was eleven years old. I was an avid 4-Her and a member of the ...
Monday, November 07, 2022

Pressing the flesh

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Last weekend I was in lovely Grantown-on-Spey, nestling close to the Cairngorms, for the town's Wee Crime Festival. It's been three ...
Friday, November 04, 2022

True Crime to Fiction

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 I'm getting a late start this morning because I had to take my dog into the vet for his physical. Alas, he weighs more now than he did ...
Wednesday, November 02, 2022

Active vs. Passive Entertainment

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  by Sybil Johnson I was in the Seattle area last week visiting family. While I was there we went to see Disney On Ice and visited a cat caf...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2022

Will Rogers Gold Medallion

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 by Charlotte Hinger  Saturday night I was awarded the Will Rogers Gold Medallion for Short Fiction for a story in the anthology, Librarians...
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Monday, October 31, 2022

What Scares Us?

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 by Thomas Kies Happy Halloween readers!!  Since today is the day when, according to the ancient Celtic tradition of Samhain, we should be l...
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Friday, October 28, 2022

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  Connections By Johnny D. Boggs The telephone rang last week, and I pushed away from the keyboard and answered. The news stunned me. Karl C...
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Thursday, October 27, 2022

The Eighth First Draft

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I have just begun the preliminary research and planning stages for my next novel (number 14), and soon I'll be in that apply-glue-to-rea...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Lizzie Noel

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 by Charlotte Hinger My short story, "Lizzie Noel," was published in the Nov/Dec issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. I'm ...
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Monday, October 24, 2022

It'll be alright on the edit

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 It's cold and wet here in Scotland, which is nothing unusual but still seeps into the bones like dampness into old walls. It's the ...
Saturday, October 22, 2022

Vaya con Dios, BookBar

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I originally wrote this for October and set it to autopost, which didn't happen.  Take 2. After too long of a delay, I finally had anoth...
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Friday, October 21, 2022

Facts and Maybe Facts

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 I'm in the midst of fact-checking for a nonfiction book that I'm doing for my academic publisher. The book is about gangster movies...
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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Hectic schedules and tiny egos

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It’s been a hectic fall with lots going on, so I’ve backed off on my Type M commitment, dropping down to one post per month for the time bei...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Reality TV Show, Anyone?

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  by Sybil Johnson  Recently, I’ve been hearing about a new reality TV show that’s in the pilot stage – America’s Next Great Author hosted ...