Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Malice Domestic 2025 Recap

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 by Sybil Johnson I am back from Malice Domestic where I had a great time seeing people I hadn’t seen in a while, meeting new people and see...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Random thoughts about Private Eye stories

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 by Michael Chandos      In "real life", whatever that is, I have been a multi-State licensed private investigator. I'm puttin...
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Saturday, April 26, 2025

Another Hollywood Scam

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No doubt many of you are familiar with the news that Meta used sites pirating books to train their AI . But that isn't the only scam goi...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

More on setting

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Thanks to my fellow Type M'er Thomas Kies for his excellent discussion of one of my favourite topics: the use of setting in fiction. Set...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

A Late Start

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by Catherine Dilts I’ve gotten a late start on gardening this year. Considering the weather this spring, perhaps I’m starting right on tim...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Where the Magic Happens---Setting

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 By Thomas Kies All of my Geneva Chase mysteries take place in Fairfield County, Connecticut.  I like that setting because it allows me to s...
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Friday, April 18, 2025

Finding Stories in Popular Non-Fiction

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Greetings Lovely Readers!  This is Shelley, writing today about finding mystery story ideas in unlikely non-fiction places. I'm not talk...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Prepping For Malice

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by Sybil Johnson No, I’m not preparing to commit bad acts. I’m heading to Malice Domestic next week (April 25-27). I am very much looking fo...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Openings

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by Charlotte Hinger So what is the crazy group of people doing? I don't have the slightest idea. But nevertheless, that's the writer...
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Monday, April 14, 2025

Ha Ha Ha

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 A writer can create drama and suspense since the writer is in charge of what the reader knows and when it's available in the story. As ...
Wednesday, April 09, 2025

Reflections on Point of View and Tense

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 In my last post, I shared a few thoughts on guidelines for writing a short story. As I am not good at following orders, or rules, I have br...
Tuesday, April 08, 2025

LCC Lessons Learned from Readers

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by Catherine Dilts In March, I attended Left Coast Crime in Denver, where I picked up new ideas and information on the business of writin...
Monday, April 07, 2025

Big Conference vs. Small Conference

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  By Thomas Kies I confess, I’m signed up to go to Bouchercon in New Orleans in September.   After attending the one in San Diego two year...
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Friday, April 04, 2025

Tariffied: Impacts on Publishing, Writing, & Creativity

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Hello, Type M Readers & Writers: Shelley here reporting from an island in the Philippine Sea and feeling very weirded-out by everything ...
Thursday, April 03, 2025

Shorter

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 I (Donis) am doing rewrites on a new book. The first draft came in at 108,000 words, mainly because this is a whole new setting and cast of...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2025

Another Anthology Event

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 by Sybil Johnson I spent last Saturday afternoon at The Last Bookstore in Studio City for a Sisters in Crime/L.A. anthology event. As you ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2025

Vanishing Book Reviews

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by Charlotte Hinger The mother of all book reviews is the New York Times . The lucky author whose book is reviewed by this prestigious publi...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

What I'm reading

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 by Steve Pease/Michael Chandos      I have a Really bad habit of reading in bed before submitting to the seduction of sleep. I like the qui...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

My short take on the short story

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 Once again, I have been very remiss with my posts on Type M. There is so much rapid-fire news and chaos in Canada, the US, and the world th...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Left Coast Crime 2025

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by Catherine Dilts Even an introvert can have fun in a large group of people, if it’s the right crowd. I stepped out of turtle mode, pokin...