Thursday, September 20, 2018

Pay Attention!

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Donis here. Is it my turn again? Time certainly flies, especially when you have a jillion things on your mind and you barely know what...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A day in a writer's life

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It's that time in a writer's life– at least in my writerly life– when I am trying to inhabit two worlds. I have been researching TH...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Is it getting harder to write contemporary crime fiction?

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by Rick Blechta I recently read — if you’ve been paying attention — a few Nero Wolfe novels. The Wolfe series began back in the ’30s, so t...
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Monday, September 17, 2018

Responding to Change

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I read Sybil's blog about the changes to the bail system and the knock-on effect on crime writers with great interest since a few years ...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

Event Surprise

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Once in a while I agree to a presentation or an event that is dramatically different than what I'm expecting. Last week I spoke to ...
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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Slow days

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Growing up, I remember autumn being the “slow season,” the time of fresh starts and of new beginnings. Spring may universally be considere...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Bye Bye Bail

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The times, they are a changin’ here in California. The state legislature recently passed a bill eliminating money bail in the state. When I ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Oh, the things you will see!

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by Rick Blechta Every writer who does their work on a computer knows how useful having an internet connection can be. Need an airline sche...
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Monday, September 10, 2018

In a Writing State of Mind

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I’ll admit, I’m a pantser. I don't plan ahead when I'm writing.  It's a discovery process.   I know what the first scene of my b...
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Saturday, September 08, 2018

Facebook: Not just another pretty (social media) face

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Vicki Delany here to introduce my friend and fellow author Judy Penz Sheluk, who has a brand new book coming out at the end of the month. ...
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Friday, September 07, 2018

Bouchercon Time

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Hi, everyone. Sorry for the late and brief post. I'm in St. Petersburg, Florida attending Bouchercon 2018. As most of you know Boucherco...
Thursday, September 06, 2018

Mark Twain and Me

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I (Donis) have been watching the PBS rerun of Ken Burns' documentary on the life of Samuel Clemens, the last episode of which ran ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2018

More fun with names

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It's fascinating to me how great Type M minds are thinking alike these days. Several of us are pre-occupied with characters - their nam...
Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Getting it all correct at the beginning

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by Rick Blechta Stories, or plots if you will, are funny things. The correct balance must be struck at the beginning or the darn things won’...
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Monday, September 03, 2018

The Naming of Characters

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What with the mysterious happenings in Sybil's car and the uncanny number of times another  post has exactly echoed what I was planning ...
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Saturday, September 01, 2018

Guest Post: Jackie Baldwin

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Aline here.  I'm delighted to introduce Jackie Baldwin,  a Scottish author who is rapidly going places. With a background in criminal la...
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Friday, August 31, 2018

All About Awards

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My latest book in the Lottie Albright series, Fractured Families , was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. A friend asked me how book...
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Thursday, August 30, 2018

The benefits of writing the screenplay

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Over the past year, I’ve had the good fortune of having a Hollywood group (a producer, a writer, a director, and an executive producer who b...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Would Sherlock Be Sherlock?

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There’s a movement afoot in my part of the world to rename things. It started with the city of El Segundo renaming its portion of Sepulveda ...
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Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Creating characters: that sinking feeling

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by Rick Blechta What is the most important part of the creative process in writing a novel? Some might say the plot; some might say th...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Stress

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Henry James said that plot is characters under stress. When I began working on my second Geneva Chase novel, Darkness Lane , I sent the f...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

A Vampire in Cowboy Boots

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My newest novel is just out, book 7 in my Felix Gomez vampire-detective series, Steampunk Banditos: Sex Slaves of Shark Island from WordFir...
Friday, August 24, 2018

There Goes Summer

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I am in that transitional time of year, when summer "ends" because school is about to begin. I don't regret the passing of ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

She Needs a Dog

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My work in progress is beginning to take shape. This is a relief, because the WIP is the first book in what may become a new series for...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018

The trouble with quirks and flaws

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Can you take one more post about characters with flaws? It's a fascinating topic, but one that risks becoming a cliche. How many review...
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