Thursday, February 27, 2025

The Serendipity Genie

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 Donis here, happy to announce that we just bought a new car. It's the first new car we've bought in 20 years. We decided we'd b...
Wednesday, February 26, 2025

In praise of launches

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 In the past two weeks, I released SHIPWRECKED SOULS, my latest Inspector Green mystery, with two launches, one in Toronto and one in Ottawa...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

Balance

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Catherine Dilts When I retired from the corporate office job recently, I envisioned sitting at my computer for eight hours a day, churning...
Saturday, February 22, 2025

Real-life Breaking Bad

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We love our crime stories but at a distance. Criminals are fascinating as long as they get no closer than Netflix, a podcast, or the pages o...
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Friday, February 21, 2025

Creativity & Manifesting Your Dreams

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     Today, I’m going to share some excerpts from a recent essay I sent with my newsletter, PINK DANDELIONS. Not because I don’t want to w...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Friendships & Book Recommendations

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One of the many things I have long enjoyed about the crime-writing community is the friendships I have made. My first publishing contract wa...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Agoura Hills Library Event - Spring Into Mystery

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 by Sybil Johnson Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of participating in an author event with Ellen Byron and Marjorie McCown at the Agoura H...
Monday, February 17, 2025

A Tough Task

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 by Steve Pease/Michael Chandos    My father died last year just after his 103rd birthday. I inherited all his "stuff". He was a c...
Thursday, February 13, 2025

A Little Something on the Side

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 I learn a lot from the funnies page in the newspaper. I'm a puzzle aficionado, and start every day by reading the paper front to back, ...
Tuesday, February 11, 2025

So? When your critique partner cracks the whip on overused words.

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Catherine Dilts I’ve been in critique groups large and small over the years. Currently, one writer and I exchange manuscripts once a month...
Monday, February 10, 2025

No Conflict, No Story

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 By Thomas Kies Syd Field, author of Screenplay: The Foundations of Screen Writing , said, “All drama is conflict. Without conflict, you hav...
Thursday, February 06, 2025

Writing in a New Place

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View from the road in Hagåtña, Guam Greetings from Guam! After nearly a month on the island of Guam, my hubby and I are in our own apartment...
Wednesday, February 05, 2025

In Person Events

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 by Sybil Johnson I enjoy doing in person events, whether it’s mystery conventions or signing at the Sisters in Crime Los Angeles booth at t...
Tuesday, February 04, 2025

Slow start

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by Charlotte Hinger My shiny New York began with the best of intentions then got off to a dismal start. A case of cellulitis landed me in th...
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Monday, February 03, 2025

I'm struggling with organization

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 By Steve Pease/Michael Chandos    I am mainly a short story writer. I like the format of a 30-40 minute story and I like pulling the puzzle...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

The Magic Character

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 I'm within a gnat's whisker of finishing the new book and am in the process of making a few changes as per my writing group's s...
Tuesday, January 28, 2025

You Have the Time

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Catherine Dilts One hour. My co-author informed me her window of opportunity was constrained that day by being the Mom Taxi. We could skip o...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Shutting Out the Distractions

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 By Thomas Kies I live on the coast of North Carolina.  I’ve been here for nearly twenty years and in all that time, I might have seen snow ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2025

My New Dog - Seven Years in a Cage

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 My dog Scout, a fourteen-year-old Shiba Inu, seemed as though he was getting close to the end. Severe bronchitis, treated with steroids tha...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Tik Tok, Facebook, and the Intersection of Social Media and Book Marketing

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This is an excerpt from a longer post on ShelleyBurbank.com published Jan. 24, 2025. I'm currently living on the island of Guam with my...