Monday, October 30, 2023

Scary Things

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 By Thomas Kies Halloween is tomorrow so you know I’ve got to talk about scary things.  Things that go bump in the night.  Sounds in the att...
Friday, October 27, 2023

Just Because We Can...

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NASA recently announced that a capsule from the Osiris-Rex spacecraft had landed in Utah. The capsule contained debris collected from the as...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Connecting with fellow book lovers

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 In my blog post two weeks ago, I wrote about the dark place I was in because of the war and the seemingly endless suffering. The bombings i...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Love Locks in the News – Again

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  by Sybil Johnson Back in 2019, I wrote a post on Type M on “Love Locks and Locksporting”. You can read it here . At the time, I was doing ...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

A Time for Weeping

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 by Charlotte Hinger The Hamas/Israel War has displaced all of my thoughts about this week's post. What a tragic event. There are so man...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Retirement---More Time for Writing and Marketing

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 By Thomas Kies It's a little hard to tell from that photo, but that was a toast made in my honor at my retirement party. I’m retiring f...
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Friday, October 13, 2023

The Copyediting Process

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 I was going through some documents I had saved on a thumb drive, searching for a midterm study guide for one of my classes that I thought I...
Thursday, October 12, 2023

The plot audition

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Sometimes, I ask my plots to audition. I ask them to try out for their roles as novels that will dominate my life for a year or more by writ...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Hope and justice for the real world

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 It's been a tumultuous week in the world. This past weekend was Canadian Thanksgiving, but many of us have been struggling with the app...
Thursday, October 05, 2023

Where is Cincinnatus?

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Since I began writing for public consumption, I’ve been careful to keep my opinions on the state of the world to myself. I figure nobody car...
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Wednesday, October 04, 2023

Aflunters, Biblioklept and Wordify

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  by Sybil Johnson From the title, you can guess that I’ve spent a bit of time recently looking at books that list obsolete English words. I...
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Monday, October 02, 2023

Real LIfe and Fiction--The Climate Question

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 By Thomas Kies A while back, I asked the question, will you include the pandemic in your writing?  I’m going to ask you another question, w...
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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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