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Three Things You Should Never Ask an AuthorMoving beyond the ubiquitous and somewhat innocent, "Where do you get your ideas"- (you really don't want to peek into the dismal tangle that is...
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Good SentencesIf the sentence is "the fundamental unit of a work of literature," then a good sentence should be the goal of a good writer. But what is a good...
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Once More Into the Details, Dear Friends!Last time around I laid the groundwork for some discussion how to get historical mystery writing “right,” including avoiding such pitfalls as...
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel: Hillbillys in a Haunted HouseVOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL: HILLBILLYS IN A HAUNTED HOUSE by Michael Mallory If you ever find yourself striving to solve the...
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Answering the CallHow do you approach the challenge when writing to a call? Is a theme a fence or a gate? Does it constrain writing, limiting where the...
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Dear Mr. Knopf:I’m pleased to inform you that we would like to represent you in selling your script, My Dinner With Andre II: Desert. JUST...
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The Flaw of the DrawIn a follow-up to the previous article about Western movies , what does Niels Bohr have in common with Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood?...
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From MM to WWSo far this month, the publication gods have been kind to me--at least with magazines. Not long ago at this blog, I mentioned that...
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English, Brother Tucker*! Do You Speak It?When most people say Old English, they're actually referring to Elizabethan English. The type found in Shakespeare and the King James Bible....
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From the Annals of Unforced Errors: RFK Jr and Kristi NoemBut this is not an unforced error. RFK Jr. didn't go out and actively seek a brain worm, and he hasn't been bragging about it: ...
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Saying UncleI am delighted to have a story in the May/June issue of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. "Professor Pie is Going to Die" is about...
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A Thousand Miles from NowherePresenting the Edgar Award for Best Short Story. Photo by Aslan Chalom. I returned home after two weeks on the road to find...
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In MemoriumI first met Susan Rogers Cooper, in 1990, when Elmer and I had the Grand Opening of our bookstore, Mysteries & More, in Austin, Texas....
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The Female Detective : 1864The physician, Arthur Conan Doyle, published his first Sherlock Holmes story, “A Study in Scarlet,” in 1887. Recently, I was surprised to...
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It Turns Out I'd Never Read The Mysterious Affair at StylesA few months ago, I was wandering Barnes & Noble and came on a display table of Agatha Christie novels. As you might imagine, it was a large...
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Writers of the World: Bifurcate Now!I am not a lawyer, accountant, or literary agent, but I do think that seven years working in the trenches of a children’s math magazine at...
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It’s In the DetailsTo be, or not to be; ay, there's the point. To die, to sleep—is that all? Ay, all. . No, to sleep, to dream—ay, marry, there...
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Fall GuysWe went to see The Fall Guy , and it’s terrific. Not what you’d call deep , by any means, but enormously...
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Three Strikes--You're Dead!I have a bad cold, so my good friend and fellow editor Donna Andrews has agreed to step in and write today's post. Thank you, and take it away,...
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Measure once, cut, correct and amend forever.There’s this great scene in the old Star Trek TV show where McCoy treats a silicone-based life form by whipping up some kind of cementitious...
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Friday the Thirteenth in StockholmApparently this really happened. You may not be astonished to know that the two criminal masterminds got caught.
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All Quite on the Western FrontOpinions, of course… quite, quite. What defines a Western ? Many argue it’s an American phenomenon although European filmmakers have left a...
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"Damn, I've Struck Oil!" Tom Gushed CrudelyI've been writing more short stories than usual lately, and maybe that's the reason most of my recent SleuthSayers posts have...
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We are all apprenticesRan across something enlightening on YouTube entitled Ernest Hemingway's Favorite Writing Exercise and figured writers would find is...
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Where's the Documentary?: RFK Jr. Edition - and Kristi NoemIt's amazing how many people here in South Dakota do not know that on September 28, 1983, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was arrested in Rapid City, South...
