Monday, April 18, 2022

Cozy? Me? I thought I was Hard-Boiled!

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 By Thomas Kies The ARC for WHISPER ROOM (release date, August 2) is available now for review and a few people have already commented on Goo...
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Thursday, April 14, 2022

The Right Thing Happens

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I've been working on a new novel that is much more "noir" than previous novels I've written. I know what Noir is, but I ca...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2022

The Perils of Blogging

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I’m tired tonight. This blog will be very short. It’s not that I can’t think of anything at all to write. It’s that I’ve learned to be frigh...
Monday, April 11, 2022

The chaotic approach to writing

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 Writers are often asked what their work process is. I usually reply that I string the words together and sometimes even in the correct orde...
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Thursday, April 07, 2022

On the move

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This spring has been –– and will be for the considerable future –– a blur. A lifelong New Englander, I, along with my adventurous wife, have...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Malice Domestic Bound

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  It’s been quite awhile since I attended a mystery conference. The last one was Bouchercon in Dallas in 2019. I was all set to attend Mali...
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Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Thought Police

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 When I was fifteen, my father cornered me. "Sweetheart, three of the filthiest books I've ever read were brought into the house by...
Monday, April 04, 2022

Short Chapters

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 By Thomas Kies I was recently asked by a fledgling writer about how long a book should be. I told him that the book is as long as it takes ...
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Friday, April 01, 2022

Happy April Fool's Day

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 I'm getting a late start this morning because yesterday I had exactly the kind of day Donis wrote about.  I spent much of the day on th...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

Ink-Stained Wretch

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 Did you ever have one of those days? That's a silly question, I suppose. Since the dawn of 2020 all of us have been having one of those...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Return of great things

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I'm late with my post today because I got sucked down the Word Game rabbit hole. I'm up to four different puzzles, each with their o...
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Genre Fiction

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 My post today is in defense of "genre fiction." It's a follow up to comments by Douglas Skelton. This is the second time I ti...
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Monday, March 28, 2022

Back in time

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 Like many authors I have to do a fair amount of reading, perhaps to provide a publicity puff,  preparation for a panel or research (yeah, b...
Saturday, March 26, 2022

La Malinche and me

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Last month I visited the Denver Art Museum and toured their exhibit of La Malinche. It was an enlightening retrospective about the history a...
Wednesday, March 23, 2022

Pep Talks From Kindergartners and Other Random Things

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  Feeling mad, frustrated or nervous? Need words of encouragement? Then Pep Talks from Kindergartners is for you! Just call 1-707-998-8410 n...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Writer's Guidelines

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Nearly every publishing house with a website has a "submissions" tab containing instructions for submitting material. Agents also ...
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Monday, March 21, 2022

Do You Need an Agent?

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Last Friday, I spoke to a group of about thirty people in our county’s writers’ group.  I talked about the number of books I wrote before I ...
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Friday, March 18, 2022

Transitions

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Like several other TypeMers, I am in transition. I'm late today because I was getting in the final edits for the reissue of the third bo...
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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Limbo

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Pandemic writing I (Donis) can relate to Barbara's feeling of discombobulation at not having a deadline to face down. Since The Old Buzz...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Missing old friends

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 I recently submitted my latest Amanda Doucette novel, WRECK BAY, to my publisher, Dundurn Press, and now await the verdict from my editor. ...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

Ordinary People

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 Foyle's War is my favorite mystery series. It's being rerun on the Acorn channel. I like it because of its superb acting, plot line...
Monday, March 14, 2022

Trying to look on the bright side

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 Okay, before I get to what's been on my mind of late, let's catch up on the great Mickey Visits The Vet adventure. After some diffi...
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Friday, March 11, 2022

Changes

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 Type M for Murder has been guided by Rick Blechta since 2006. He has been the best blogmaster any group could hope to have. His wisdom and ...
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Thursday, March 10, 2022

Wait. What? You can DO that?

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On Friday, my students in my creative writing elective finished their eight-week poetry segment of the course. For fun, the day before sprin...
Wednesday, March 09, 2022

The Great Courses

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  I’m a big fan of The Great Courses, a series of college-level audio and video courses produced and distributed by The Teaching Company. To...
Tuesday, March 08, 2022

And now it’s time for me to say goodbye

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by Rick Blechta Way back in mid-2006, Vicki Delany, Charles Benoit, and I decided to start a blog. Vicki, if memory serves, came up with the...
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Monday, March 07, 2022

The Last Class

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 By Thomas Kies Tonight will be the last class in my Creative Writing workshop series at the college.  The last class is always a little bit...
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Thursday, March 03, 2022

For Love of Animals

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 My dearest sympathy to Barbara on the loss of her beloved Eva. I love the fact that Barbara has immortalized Eva in her novels. All dogs de...
Wednesday, March 02, 2022

Immortalized on the page

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 This year is only two months old, but already it's shaping up to eclipse 2021 in horrors. In the western world at least, as the fresh n...
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Tuesday, March 01, 2022

A sense of dread

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by Rick Blechta Unlike Douglas with his lovely post yesterday, I can't let my weekly post go by without a political comment. We usually ...