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A Mystery Writer's Night Before Christmas Eve...and Fourth Wedding AnniversaryJeff—Saturday Whenever I think of Christmas, I think of traditions...such as wishing my bride...
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Readers log 2024?Two weeks ago I was in Gran Canaria. An edit for a difficult book was coming back and it would be good to have some peace and...
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When animals were people reduxMichael - Alternate Thursdays That bit above about "alternate Thursdays" has come back to bite me. I've spent today looking forward to...
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KWEI’S MOVIE REVIEWS--“SINGLE ALL THE WAY"Kwei-- Wed I n my film reviews, I start with the benchmark of five stars and then deduct half or one point if the film falls short in...
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Character firstThree cracking reads that won the three categories of the 2023 Ngaio Marsh Awards Craig every second Tuesday. Kia ora and...
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Writing Standing Up--Ovidia--every other Tuesday I know it's bad for people to sit too long but I'm also very aware I'm not staying on the computer long...
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Fictional Writers of FictionAnnamaria on Tenterhooks On Wednesday, I am leaving NYC for two and half months. I...
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Antiquities Returned to Greece from NYC ... But I'm Not Among ThemThe most interesting antiquity to me is to the far left front Saturday—Jeff ...
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Word Of The Year 2023The word of the year 2023 Wait for it. Drum roll Is hallucinate. I’ve only hallucinated once in my life when...
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Crushed, or Howard Bannister Will Always Live in my HeartWendall - every other Thursday Ryan O’Neal passed away last week. This hit me particularly hard. Although many fell for him in Love...
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SPECIAL EDITION BONUS CHRISTMAS MOVIE REVIEW: “CHRISTMAS AS USUAL"Kwei "CHRISTMAS AS USUAL" Kanan Gill and Marit Andreassen in “Christmas As Usual” (Image: DALL-E portrayal)...
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Marine DrivenSUJATA MASSEY It was just 4:30 in the morning when my husband Tony and I arrived in Mumbai on a middle-of-the-night flight from...
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Agatha Christie Meets Out of Africa?Annamaria, Happy Annamaria I am rejoicing because today my Africa series is free at last. It had seemed...
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Inspiration is Out There ... Waiting ... WaitingJeff–Saturday I wrote much of this piece almost two years ago while laboring through pandemic days and just happened to...
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A romantic interludeHere we host a guest blogger, that most weird of things - a romantic fiction writer! How do they write so well without killing...
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Reading Africa WeekMichael - Alternate Thursdays This is Reading Africa Week , an initiative started by Catalyst Press in 2017. The idea is...
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Happy December Down Time!Ovidia --every other Tuesday Warning: hotchpotch ahead! I'm happily nursing a minor infection, meaning I've been skipping yoga, pilates and the...
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Potholes of Historical Fiction 1.0: AnachronismsAnnamaria on Monday Anachronisms show up all too often in films that take place in the past: like that reflection...
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One of These Guys Will Lose His MarblesJeff–Saturday I’m not about to get into the history of the Parthenon Sculptures/Elgin Marbles...
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Andrew, Ken and Robert.Caravaggio's St Andrew on the cross. It was St Andrews Day yesterday. He was Andrew the Apostle, the one depicted with...
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Wine Picker for a DayWendall -- every other Thursday I just found a grape in my bra. It’s small, dark blue, and intact. I...
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Held up in Fort CochinSUJATA MASSEY It feels like only yesterday that I was driving out of Kumarakom Village, in the Kottayam district near Lake...
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Choosing a Setting for FictionAnnamaria on Monday As with the works of many of my stellar blogmates, the title Murder is Everywhere fits my books...
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Iceland Noir 2023Saturday–Jeff Ahh, finally I’m back in a familiar time zone. Uhh, or am I? Oh, well at...
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The series bibleI’ve just delivered book three, starting on book four. 1000 words done, and a few more yet to go. It’s a book where the geography...
