Friday, September 29, 2023

Back on Track

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Frankie here. I'm late today because I'm traveling with a couple of friends. We spent two days in Baltimore and saw the Orioles play...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

After THE END

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In my last blog, I posted that my work in progress refused to end, rambling on way past the expected word count with endless complications t...
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Saturday, September 23, 2023

Unintended Consequences

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 One of my favorites phenomenons in the universe is that of unintended consequences. We think we have every angle covered resulting from our...
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Thursday, September 21, 2023

One Of Those Days

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Donis here. I understand that Saturn squared off with the moon yesterday, which is supposed to mean that things annoy you and stuff goes wro...
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Wednesday, September 20, 2023

A Fun Tradition

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  by Sybil Johnson  Every time a book comes out in my Aurora Anderson mystery series, I take a copy to Disneyland and do a photo shoot. I st...
Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Talk About Perseverance

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 by Charlotte Hinger Last Friday, Judith Briles interviewed m ega-bestselling Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame Inductee Kevin J. Anderson. In ...
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Monday, September 18, 2023

Telling Secrets

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  By Thomas Kies I wouldn’t come back again to talk about Bouchercon except I just paid off my credit card for the expenses I incurred whi...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The tangled string

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 Oh how I wish I had been at Bouchercon! Reading about everyone's experiences, both in this blog and on Facebook, has made me realize ho...
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Friday, September 08, 2023

At Bouchercon

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I went to Bouchercon, too. I started to write a post last Friday but never had a chance to get back to it. Here's how I started: "S...
Thursday, September 07, 2023

Please Don't

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 Donis here. I have mentioned previously that besides writing mysteries, I have a side gig as a free-lance mystery reviewer for Publishers&#...
Wednesday, September 06, 2023

My Bouchercon 2023 Experience

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  by Sybil Johnson Authors, readers, panels, interviews, awards, friends, books and walking—so much walking. That, in a nutshell, was my Bou...
Tuesday, September 05, 2023

Old Books

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 by Charlotte Hinger Today I downloaded Captains and Kings by Taylor Caldwell. I can't pinpoint what made want to re-read this old old ...
Monday, September 04, 2023

Notes from Bouchercon

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 By Thomas Kies I’m writing this from the Marriott Marqui Hotel in San Diego on the last day of Bouchercon 2023.  This is one the biggest, i...
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

A writer's summer life

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 Summer always feels like a mishmash of competing interests and attractions, with little sustained direction or goal. Especially up here in ...
Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Mystery Central

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 By Charlotte Hinger BlackPast is the biggest blog or the website with the most readers that I'm aware of. So what does it take to creat...
Saturday, August 26, 2023

The Writer's Junkyard

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I've started a new manuscript and to my surprise, it was a challenge putting words on the page. I found myself struggling with the perpe...
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Thursday, August 24, 2023

Words From the Masters

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As I struggle along with my work in progress, I take comfort from knowing that great literary masters had the same problems with writing tha...
Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Of Tropical Storms and Earthquakes

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  I live in Southern California where we recently had a tropical storm warning, the first one in almost 90 years. The last one was in 1939, ...
Monday, August 21, 2023

Writers Are Readers, Right?

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 by Thomas Kies I got a phone call from a man who was referred to me by a friend.  Apparently, they were talking about life insurance.  I kn...
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Friday, August 18, 2023

Someone to Root For

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  As I often do, I am reading books about writing as I work on my next book. Since I have multiple points of view and several primary charac...