Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Everything old is new again

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by Rick Blechta In case you didn’t know, I’m an admitted typography junky. I’m referring to those glyphs you’re looking at right now, mean...
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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Ghosts, shoes, and suicide.

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My post this month coincides with the Halloween weekend, the time of the year for ghosts and other scary things. I'll start by talking a...
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Friday, October 26, 2018

When I'm an Old Woman. . .

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Last week I helped with a funeral dinner and all the ladies there wore red hats and flamboyant purple dresses. One of the other help...
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Thoughts on a Reading Life

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Like all writers, I’m a reader first. But my day job has me thinking about books, maybe, differently than some other writers might. Given th...
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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Sans Forgetica

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Sans Forgetica. That’s the name of the font in the picture. Yep, that’s a real font name. I’m not making it up. It’s not the prettiest ...
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Monday, October 22, 2018

Tom's Halloween Blog

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The month of October marks the beginning of autumn.  The leaves are turning color, the days are getting shorter, the air is crisp, and Starb...
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Saturday, October 20, 2018

Guest Author Dennis Palumbo Talks Erotomania

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What would be the ideal professional background for a mystery and thriller writer? Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter (My Favorite Year;...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

NaNoWriMo Time Again

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This year -- once again -- I intend to participate in National Novel Writing Month. I say "intend" meaning I will sign up again an...
Thursday, October 18, 2018

A Trip to the Homeland

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I'm not really here today, Dear Reader. I am in Woodward, Oklahoma, as you read this. Last August I had to cancel a trip to speak a...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Launches and signings and readings, oh dear

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Last night I had the official launch of my latest book, PRISONERS OF HOPE, and so begins the frenetic season of promoting a new book. It...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Too close to home

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by Rick Blechta Imagine if you will the following plot for a novel. An older man, legally blind and living alone, goes out for his usu...
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Saturday, October 13, 2018

Branching Out into the World of Sherlock Holmes

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By Vicki Delany If there is one thing, I am not, it’s a non-fiction writer.  I like being able to make up things. But it never h...
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Friday, October 12, 2018

I Needed Help

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In my last post, I wrote about my unbelievably positive publishing experience for my first novel. Well, not my first novel. It was actu...
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Thursday, October 11, 2018

Character Sketches

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It's been a whirlwind of a week. On the writing front, most of my time has been dedicated to character sketches as I work up a synopsi...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Pumpkin Racing, Anyone?

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My fourth book, Designed For Haunting , came out yesterday so Yay! me. I’m in the middle of my Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour as well as ap...
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Tuesday, October 09, 2018

Murdertown…

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by Rick Blechta Yesterday was Thanksgiving up here in the Great White North, so consequently I woke up this morning at six a.m. with a jol...
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Monday, October 08, 2018

Finished Manuscript

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On Sunday, October 7, at a little after noon, I hit the button and sent the manuscript for Graveyard Bay to my editor, Annette Rogers, at ...
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Saturday, October 06, 2018

Guest Post: Margaret Dumas

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Sybil here. Please welcome Margaret Dumas to Type M. I met Margaret at Left Coast Crime in Reno where we had a nice chat about our books and...
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Friday, October 05, 2018

Another Voice

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I should have known, but I didn't. A couple of days ago, I was editing some chapters. When I clicked "Review," I saw something...
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Thursday, October 04, 2018

Off Into the Woods

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Donis here. I've just completed the first draft of the first book in what I hope will be a new series, set in the 1920's in Cali...
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Wednesday, October 03, 2018

In praise of authenticity

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I am sitting in a hotel room near the Calgary airport, waiting for my flight home to Ottawa in the morning. It's the last day of my two...
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

And now a word from the administrator…

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by Rick Blechta I think it’s a wise idea to use my space this week to explain something to everyone here. Lately, Type M has been experi...
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Monday, October 01, 2018

You Can't Tell a Book by its Cover - or Can You?

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How do you feel about the covers of your books? What do you hope for, when you first get the image? Do you have a clear idea of what you wan...
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Friday, September 28, 2018

Book Learning

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I taught myself to write from books and magazines such as The Writer and Writer's Digest because I didn't know any better. I had a...
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