Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Hey! Anyone out there need a gift suggestion?

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by Rick Blechta This is going to be a philanthropic bit of outrageously self-promoting promotion. Huh? Well, it goes like this. To the...
Monday, December 19, 2016

Goodbye to 2016 and Hello to 2017

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By Vicki Delany This is my last post at Type M for 2016. It’s been quite a year. Although it seems that the same cannot be said for t...
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Saturday, December 17, 2016

Guest Blog: Len Tyler

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Aline here. I'm delighted to introduce you today to Len Tyler, Chair of the Crime Writers Association. From this seat of immense power a...
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Friday, December 16, 2016

Holidays with My Characters

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Posts from Rick, Barbara, and Aline about holiday customs got me thinking about Christmas when I was a child. I grew up in Virginia, and my ...
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Thursday, December 15, 2016

A New Book Coming

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On its way! Remember this old folk song, Dear Reader? The grand old Duke of York, He had ten thousand men. He marched them up the h...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

'Tis the season of wandering minds

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Barbara here. I was so happy to see the two previous posts of my blogmates. What to write about? No ideas. Nada. Let's try to think seri...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Going completely off-topic

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by Rick Blechta Yeah, yeah, I know this blog is supposed to be about presenting thoughts about writing, crime writing in particular, but l...
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Monday, December 12, 2016

Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

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No, this isn't another post about the impossibility of finding an easy answer to this most frequently-asked question.  This is about sit...
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Saturday, December 10, 2016

Guest Post: Sarah M. Chen

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Please welcome fellow Sisters in Crime/LA member, Sarah M. Chen, to Type M! We worked together on the SinC/LA board plus we've done seve...
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Friday, December 09, 2016

The Best Worst Time

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I began writing a new mystery Wednesday. The timing was absolutely horrible. I'm always stressed during the Christmas season. There is t...
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Wednesday, December 07, 2016

Bookmarks and Postcards and Pens, Oh My

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One of my favorite things to do at conferences is to check out the postcards, bookmarks and other assorted items left for attendees to grab ...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2016

The Other Blechta

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by Rick Blechta The past two weeks I’ve done very little writing. Why? Because I’m trying to clean up the last of the graphic design work ...
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Friday, December 02, 2016

Rainy Days and Wednesdays

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I love the rain. The rain when I lived in Seattle, rain in the morning, with Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier in the distance. The kind of rain t...
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Thursday, December 01, 2016

The Ice Ages

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Time passes so quickly that it alarms me sometimes. How did I get anything done at all in my former life when I worked for other people? The...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The lure of maps

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Barbara here. Every since I was a little kid doing treasure hunts at birthday parties, maps – and especially hand drawn maps – have always g...
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Little free libraries

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by Rick Blechta To the right you can see what looks at first glance like a large birdhouse. It’s not. This is a “little free library” and ...
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Monday, November 28, 2016

The Thief of Time

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Recently my daughter gave me a present of procrastinating pencils. They came in a little pack and each of them bears a suggestion. You pro...
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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Readers versus Writers

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Jess Walter and Dana Spiotta will be speaking next Saturday at Inside the Writer's Studio presented by Lighthouse Writers Workshop . In...
Friday, November 25, 2016

The First Thanksgiving

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We had a great Thanksgiving yesterday. It was the first time I hosted a large family event in my home since moving to Fort Collins. I was am...
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Thursday, November 24, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving & Audiobooks

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Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers. I found Vicki’s recent post about audiobooks interesting, and it got me thinking about my own ...