Tuesday, February 28, 2023

A Rose is a Rose

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 by Charlotte Hinger The process for recording an audiobook is fascinating. Blackstone Audio used to produce books published by Poisoned Pen...
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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Scribes to our Robot Overlords

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 The previous Type M post from John Corrigan touched upon writing samples from the Artificial Intelligence app, ChaptGPT and its worrisome ...
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Thursday, February 23, 2023

Hardcopy and ChatGPT

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The pages and the pencil... Sitges, Spain Greetings from Spain. I’m “working” –– chaperoning 14 students to Terrassa. While here, when I hav...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

MasterClass

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by Charlotte Hinger  Well, what do you know? There is something new under the sun. It's MasterClass. For some time my on-line reading w...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

First Piece Published--Feeling Remembered.

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 by Thomas Kies As I was walking Annie, our dog, one morning, I thought about the first piece of fiction that I was lucky enough to have pub...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

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Tucson Festival of Books By Johnny D. Boggs I have been swamped with deadlines, assignments and shoveling snow. But here’s some great news: ...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Me, Too (Writing and Post-Covid)

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Both Charlotte's and Donis's posts this week struck home with me. At the best of times, I procrastinate even when I have something I...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

There Are People Out There!

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 I, Donis, am actually going to a conference next month! I'm signed up for Left Coast Crime in Tucson, AZ, in mid-March. This is the fi...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

Road trip!

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 Two weeks ago, I blogged about promotion and my upcoming in-person book launches in Toronto and Ottawa. As could be expected in Ottawa in e...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Creative Procrastination

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 by Charlotte Hinger My all-time favorite way to avoid the onerous task of writing a novel used to be through excessive research. I really k...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Writing Historical Mysteries

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  by Sybil Johnson  My comment on Thomas’ post on Monday was a suggestion to have a workshop on writing historical mysteries. That came to m...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Curses

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by Charlotte Hinger Writers are a superstitious lot. Curses that people put on our ability to write hold us back. Here are a few that "...
Monday, February 06, 2023

Workshop Ideas, Please?

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 By Thomas Kies Over the past few years, I’ve taught Creative Writing and Advanced Creative Writing classes at our local community college. ...
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Friday, February 03, 2023

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What's Behind Me? By Johnny D. Boggs A fellow writer asked what dictionary I use. Hey, I did not say that this was a stimulating convers...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

More thoughts on promotional outreach

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Frankie's Friday post about promotional outreach touched close to home because my latest Amanda Doucette book, WRECK BAY was just releas...
Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Timid Words for Horrific Acts

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 by Charlotte Hinger Please. There is a word I never want to hear again. It's "unacceptable." I mean the word itself. "Un...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

The Director

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 As a writer of crime, I love reading about crime and the history of fighting crime. The fascination of crime is that such acts represent th...
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Friday, January 27, 2023

Post-Pandemic Outreach

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Frankie, here. Today's post is more to invite discussion than to offer any conclusions I've reach. I'd like to hear any thoughts...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

My Year in Books, 2022

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  by Sybil Johnson I hope your week is going well. Internet problems at home has forced me to do this post from my local library. The view ...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

The Magic of Best Sellers

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 by Charlotte Hinger The making of bestsellers fascinates me. My wonderful agent, Claire Smith (b.1934-d.1998)  once said publishers couldn&...