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Can you love the art and loathe the artist?For years, I've told my writing students that to be a successful novelist, you must be the writer, AND the author. The Writer does the...
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How It's Done and Over MasticationInspired by recent posts from Michael Bracken and John Floyd, I wrote the following. In his SleuthSayer's posting of 4/11/23, Michael Bracken...
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The Legend of Jack Rubyby Eve Fisher Actually, this story is primarily by Gary Cartwright, and was published Texas Monthly in November,...
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A Fine Trip to the DumpDo you know Thomas Perry? He writes mostly thrillers, and one critic described his work as "competence porn," meaning...
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With Bias Toward NoneI'm sure I'm unique with this problem. While I searched for one thing, I got sidetracked. I distracted myself by...
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Crime Scene Comix Case 2023-04-021, Bearly ThereOnce 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 Digital Detective, Banco and Bunco, Part 1One upon a time I was scammed , or rather American Express was. In my consulting days, a pair of cancelled flights kept me hostage at Chicago...
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Don't Mess Up a Good ThingNo, my title's not referring to the old song by Fontella Bass and Bobby McClure (though I'm old enough to remember it). This is one...
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The Author Is Not The Protagonist. Until She Is.GPA Photo Archive https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ On the scifi side, I once had a newsletter serialized...
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The Point of DescriptionSo I took a pic of this last week during a birthday trip to the SouthWest: For those of you not familiar with this particular formation, it...
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DrumsI bought a drum kit the year before last. I’ve always wanted one, and never took the plunge. I should specify that...
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Story MiningI don’t often write about the genesis of my stories because I often don’t know or don’t remember much about how they came to be. My stories...
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A literary guide to family valuesPlaywrights see their job as delving into the most fraught and tragic aspects of life. Ever since Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus, they have...
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Koalas and Crime ScenesDuring my late-night-I-just-cannot-sleep internet wanderings I stumbled upon a surprising fact: koalas have fingerprints. Well, that...
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What Is Up With That, Anyway?A personal Saturday Night Live favorite is "What Up with That?" The sketch features Kenan Thompson as a flamboyant BET talk show host...
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The Best Website about Best BooksI’ll bet the last time you wanted to get some suggestions for a product you planned to buy, you hopped online and searched for something like:...
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A Hospital is No Place for Sick PeopleMy husband was in the hospital a couple of weeks ago for a few days - and while it was very scary, he is back home now, and doing better than he...
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Here's What HappenedPlease welcome a special guest. Kaye George is an award-winning writer. As you will see below she writes novels in...
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Three More Great BooksIn early January, I shared three books I'd recently read and loved. Now I'm back with three more books I've read since then. I highly...
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What Makes You A Writer?Some writers say you're not a real writer unless you write every day. I heard this view espoused by Walter Mosley at NoirCon in 2022. I hope his...
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The Chocolate Cherry Crime WaveCosette does not appear in this article. R.T. Lawton and others have written about Les Misérables . That great novel comprised a...
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Taking Stock of the MarketsOver the past several weeks it's been my pleasure to participate in several Zoom sessions with other writers and writers' groups. I...
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Wasting time by watching stuff on the internetWhat I learned from wasting my writing time by watching stuff on the internet: Lions are mean. They kill for food primarily but will kill to...
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Marlowe on TVAnd here it is, the fourth installment in my four-part series, delving deeply into the back catalog of Raymond Chandler’s iconic detective,...
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Keep It Under Your Hat (Your Crimesolving Ability, That Is)by Michael Mallory Paget's Original Deerstalker Illustration Here’s a simple experiment: draw a stick figure, like a “Hangman”...
