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In Your Dreams. Or Just Prior To Them.I have mentioned before that I am an archaeology buff (and that theme will be returning in a few weeks, methinks). This led to me...
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Caution: Writer at WorkWhen you're pulled in too many directions at once, it's nice to have a friend who is willing to pinch hit for you. So today, instead of offering...
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True Crime ConfessionsNote: Jan is anything but a mystery guest but we had a little trouble setting up this column so her name doesn't appear in the...
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To Mask or not to Mask, that is the Question: Spoiler alert, those who mask may not be criminals.When the Mayor of New York city asked shoppers to remove their masks, it led to very worrisome conversations that has many moving parts that...
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Mother's Day and Why I Crack FoxyPerched atop my basement cabinet is a Maltese Falcon. Not the Maltese Falcon prop, understand, but it’s the same size as the...
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Audiobooks RevisitedI like audiobooks. Jim Winter’s May 5 th column “Listen” about audiobooks took me back to my audiobook column of May 24, 2019, so I've...
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Yes, But Is It HISTORY?What good is a wet blanket against a cannonball? Not THIS type of "wet blanket" Yep. You read that right. What good is a...
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Close-UpHarry Lorayne died last month. He was 96. Most people, if they were familiar with his name, would have thought, “Oh, the memory...
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A Mash of MirthThe current issue of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine kindly carries my story, "The Case of the Kosher Deal." While I am always over the...
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Bottoms UpWe’re often asked which politician we’d like to go have a beer with. But what about writers? Luckily, I know a lot of...
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My husband died.I can’t write flash fiction without thinking of Fran Rizer. She ‘complained’ those ultra-short stories upset her Sunday routine of preparing...
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Guest Post: Authors Helping AuthorsIt's been a year and a half since my friend Judy Penz Sheluk posted here at SleuthSayers, to talk about the third book in her Superior Shores...
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Listenaudible.com One day while I doom scrolled Twitter, a writer declared listening to audio books to be cheating and not really...
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Who Killed Judas?Laskin, South Dakota, is both a church-going and hard-drinking town, and sees no dichotomy with that. But it surprised Sheriff Bob Hanson to see...
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Chatting for CluesThis is going to start out a bit vague but, as you will see, vagueness will actually will be a theme. Recently I thought of a title for...
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In Search of the Perfect OfficeMy office on day one of my return to full-time freelancing. I didn't even bother to straighten up. If you are like several writers...
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Yorkville—RIP, Colorful New York NeighborhoodMy mystery series protagonist Bruce Kohler lives in a railroad flat in an old-law tenement in the Manhattan neighborhood once known as...
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Don't Ever Get OldAs Ben Johnson's character says to another old timer in a John Wayne western just before the big gun fight scene, "Don't ever get old."...
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Simultaneous SubmissionsWhen I was teaching courses on writing and selling short fiction (my final classes were five years ago this month), there were three...
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The Mystery at the Heart of “Masquerade”My notes and case dossier from 41 years ago. Buried treasures, anagrams, and complex puzzles are all tropes found in mystery...
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An Exile in the Realm of Morpheus"A tired mind become a shape-shifter." ...
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Candice RenoirSo, they cancel Doctor Blake , leaving a lot unresolved. There may have been good reasons for it, in the real world, but given the...
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It's Malice time!I like to think of myself an an organized person, but sometimes life just kicks my butt. Normally I would write this post tomorrow...
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Things writers can do when they discover they’re old.Stay up all night . Not because you’re dancing in the moonlight or pounding tequila, but because you’ve forgotten to go to bed. ...
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The Digital Detective, Banco and Bunco, Part 2Resuming from last week … Money Laundering Checks (‘cheques’ in other English-speaking countries) are becoming less common in our digital...
