Saturday, May 24, 2025

When There Are No More Tomorrows

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 Last January I blogged about our recently adopted dog, Dirk, and that we had brought him into the household as an emotional bulwark against...
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

Twists and Turns

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 by Catherine Dilts As my fellow Type M for Murder authors know, these books ain’t gonna sell themselves! I’m trying to push myself out th...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

Let's Talk Tropes

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by Thomas Kies  I taught a class last week on the campus of NC State University to room of fifty mystery buffs.  The subject of the talk was...
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Friday, May 16, 2025

Cover Craft: Examining Four Online Top Sellers' Covers & My Own Attempts

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A first attempt at a cover design for my upcoming long short story. Shelley here once again and wondering how two weeks could have passed so...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Are You “by accident” or “on accident”?

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 by Sybil Johnson I find languages endlessly fascinating. I’ve taken enough linguistic classes to know that they change over time. Unless i...
Monday, May 12, 2025

WHAT'S A WRITER TO DO?

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     by Steve Pease/Michael Chandos       A short one tonight, I'm afraid. I've been sick for a week with a chest cold and didn'...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2025

Social Media self-destruction

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 I read with interest Shelley's post about the baffling and frustrating world of marketing. No author I know becomes a writer because th...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2025

Are Conferences Business or Pleasure?

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Catherine Dilts Why would hundreds of introverts flock together? Isn’t that contrary to their very nature? When asked, most people told me...
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Friday, May 02, 2025

Rediscovering the Joy of Writing

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  Happy Friday! Shelley here, once again, from Guam where I'm finding inspiration in the oddest places, like this moldering, broken balu...
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Thursday, May 01, 2025

Envy

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My writing career has been very much up and down since the pandemic. It frustrates me no end. Seeing Sybil's fabulous photos of Malice m...
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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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