Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Words of the Year 2024

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 by Sybil Johnson It’s that time of the year again. No, I don’t mean Thanksgiving, though it is tomorrow. I’m busy prepping for that.  No, I...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

On Epilogues

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By Charlotte Hinger  In this blog I've complained about novels that have a beginning, a middle, and a middle. That's it! No end in s...
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Monday, November 25, 2024

Watching People

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 By Steve Pease / Michael Chandos    Our stories are about people. Not about the setting, the action, or the clues, but about the people liv...
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Saturday, November 23, 2024

In Memory

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Friday I attended the Celebration of Life for Christine T. Jorgensen (1941-2024). I met Christine during my first Colorado Gold conference i...
Thursday, November 21, 2024

Rewrite Time

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 I've finally finished the first draft of my new book, and have begun the rewrite. We've all heard many times that writing is rewrit...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

A novel way to connect with readers

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 This is a very quick post because I am already late with it and many other things need to be done. But I want to report on a very interesti...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2024

I Hired a PI - the conclusion

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 By Catherine Dilts My previous post on Type M for Murder (11/5/24) described the events that led to hiring a real-life private investiga...
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Friday, November 15, 2024

It's the People You Meet

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What’s the best part of this crazy writing life? It’s the people you meet.  Way back in college in the 1980s, I met my friend, Mary Ann. She...
Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Thanksgiving Mysteries

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 by Sybil Johnson Halloween is behind us. Here in the U.S., Thanksgiving is only a couple weeks away. Yet a lot of retailers are focusing, a...
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Monday, November 11, 2024

Snow and Long Ago by Steve Pease/Michael Chandos

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     Every dozen Octobers, Halloween in Colorado delivers a serious snowstorm. We had an enormous blizzard in 93 (or was it 94?), 60 mph win...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

Guest Author Lorie Lewis Ham

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Lorie Lewis Ham This weekend, Type M 4 Murder is happy to welcome our honored guest blogger, Lorie Lewis Ham. Lorie lives in Reedley, Califo...
Tuesday, November 05, 2024

What It's Like to Hire a PI

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 By Catherine Dilts This summer, I hired a Private Investigator. The experience had little in common with what I’ve seen in movies or read...
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Friday, November 01, 2024

Middle Age & The Madness of Art

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At the Bangor Pubic Library in Bangor, Maine  It’s the first of November, and I’m in Maine watching orange and bronze leaves carpet the scra...
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Thursday, October 31, 2024

Why do we write what we write?

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Happy Halloween! I have some scary questions for you today. What leads us to write what we write? And in an ever-shrinking market, what shou...
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Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Happy Halloween!

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 by Sybil Johnson I can’t believe tomorrow is Halloween! The year has sped by.  When I was growing up, Halloween wasn’t as big a deal as it ...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Try Seasonal

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 by Charlotte Hinger I have a neighbor who goes all out for Halloween. Their display is enormous. I'm intrigued by the figures every yea...
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Monday, October 28, 2024

Hemingway’s Rules for Writing

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  By Steve Pease writing as Michael Chandos "My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way....
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Saturday, October 26, 2024

The Call

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Twenty years ago this month, I got "The Call," meaning the phone call I received from my agent informing me that HarperCollins had...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Link Arms and Dance

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Donis here today. As I've mentioned more than once on this blog, I'm in the middle of acting as Writer in Residence for the Glendale...
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Leaping into the void

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 As usual, recent posts by my fellow Type M'ers contain so much food for thought and inspiration for posts of my own. What a wealth of w...