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Open Books. Open Minds.There’s a lot of commentary out there over a surge in book banning. I know this practice has been going on for a long...
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Setting the HookStone Age Fish Hook Photo from Wikipedia In his review of Nathaniel Hawthorne's short fiction book, Twice Told Tales for...
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Here Come da JudgeTrue story: While I was trying to figure out what to post for today, I was asked by a writer friend to serve as a judge for an...
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Poisoned PenA friend of mine sent me this article asking if I knew anything about it. The long, tortured affair took place in Circleville, one of those...
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Crime Scene Comix Case 2023-07-022; ParkingOnce again we highlight our criminally favorite cartoonist, Future Thought channel of YouTube . We love the sausage-shaped Shifty, a Minion...
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The Martha's Vineyard MysteriesI enjoy a brutally scathing review as well as the next guy, even when undeserved – Dorothy Parker’s elegantly snide ‘Tonstant Weader Fwows...
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New Three-Book SeriesSleuthSayers readers know me primarily as a crime fiction writer/editor, and some remember me as the “King of Confessions” because I wrote...
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The Bowery — A Vanished World RevisitedThe protagonist of my long-running Bruce Kohler mystery series got sober at the beginning of Death Will Get You Sober , written in 2003 and...
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Flash Fiction– ImprovIt’s time once again for a touch of flash fiction. I can’t accept credit for the word play derived from one of those chain emails that...
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Why I Watch British TV (almost exclusively)A friend of mine says he prefers British TV because "they use real people." By this, he means everyone on the set isn't young and...
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The President Who Played Detective, and other adventuresReplica of Washington's Rising Sun chair, used during the Constitutional Convention of 1787. (The Museum of the American Revolution)...
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The Mystic Chords of (Literary) MemoryGuy Pearce having a completely unmemorable day Two things straight from the jump: First, I have been blessed from birth...
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Five Red Herrings: 121. Sounds of Suspense. If you are a fan of Alfred Hitchcock you might want to head over to BBC Sounds and listen (for free) to...
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Dutch TreatDUTCH TREAT by Josh Pachter Hebban, the largest online literary community in The Netherlands, recently asked its readers to...
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The robots are coming, the robots are coming.Maybe it’s more hope than expectation, but I don’t think AI will ever take the place of creative writers. If it does, then I guess...
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The Ice Cream ChroniclesLocks, Ladies, and Lawyers For reasons I can’t fathom, I enjoy reading and watching legal sites, one of the reasons I appreciate Mark...
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AfterthoughtsI have always said, anytime the discussion turns to the fiction-writing process, that I'm an outliner. Maybe not on paper,...
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More About Opening Lines – AgainHAPPY BASTILLE DAY everyone from this French-American. Following Michael Bracken's lead (again) – In his July 4th...
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Too Much Eye ContactP.N. Elrod published this on her Facebook page and I immediately asked for permission to reprint it here. She is a writer and editor,...
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Xena ReduxSo, now that I’m thoroughly hooked on Candice Renoir , the powers that be have made the show unavailable for streaming as of the...
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A Constitutional Road TripSummertime. Our thoughts often turn to vacation travel. Today, I'd like to use the blog space to propose an itinerary for those traveling to...
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The Importance of StupidityMystery fans tend to celebrate the well-stocked minds, brilliant logic and analytical genius of the great detectives, but let's be fair. The genre...
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Synopsis and PoisonsNo conversation about submissions to literary agents is complete without a discussion about writing a synopsis. There are many professional...
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Weapons and What Comes AroundCrime fiction has a weapon. Figuratively, I mean, not pistols, wrenches, or candlesticks. Not mystery, not suspense. I’m talking about something...
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Not In My Backyard?Recently, I saw a post on Facebook suggesting (I hope humorously) one bury murder victims upright because satellites can look for...
