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A Long Take on Short StoriesBy Margaret Lucke This weekend I’m in the Seattle area attending Left Coast Crime, a wonderful convention of mystery writers and...
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Musing on the Moon and a Miracleby Janis Patterson Today is Thursday. On Monday I experienced a miracle. A true miracle. I am fortunate enough to live in the path of...
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Feng Shui and MeDid you know that today is International Feng Shui Day? According to The Spruce.com, Feng shui is the practice of arranging pieces in living...
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Guest Blogger ~ Ron RomanHow Of Ashes and Dust Came To Be Written The timeline for the composition of Of Ashes and Dust dates to when I was teaching...
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The Devil Of Writing A Series by Heather HavenWriting a series with a continuing cast of characters has its drawbacks. Sure, I know everybody, like everybody, even the...
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A Change of SceneAs I write this, I’m living in a hotel, with my cats, because new flooring is being installed in my condo—finally! It has been six months since...
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Guest Blogger ~ J.T. KellyI began my writing career after retiring at the age of 70. At the end of my first novel, protagonists Jack and Sara McCabe are thrilled to learn...
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Audiobooks, AI and MeI am participating in a Beta test using AI voices to generate audiobooks. Interesting. And not altogether a bad experience, but a time-consuming...
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MARKETING 101I love everything about writing my books. The research and plotting. Developing characters and creating scenarios for their fictional lives....
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Discovering the SettingI’m in the middle of the sixth book in the Anita Ray series, which is set in a tourist hotel in a South Indian resort. Over the...
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When Changing Reality Conspires to Make Me Look Like an IdiotMost fiction authors are familiar with the debate about whether to use real locations, people, and real historical events in our stories; or...
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An Early Spring by Karen ShughartHere on the south shore of Lake Ontario we had a mild winter, and now we’re having an early spring. In February that rascally groundhog...
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Guest Blogger ~ C.B. WilsonResearch A doggone nightmare or puppy love? Research is a crucial part of writing for many writers. Some love it, while others hate...
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Hook, Line and Sinker – The Problem with First Linesby Janis Patterson Unfortunately we live in a sound bite age – if you don’t get their attention in X amount of seconds you don’t...
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Marketing and Promotion BluesLike most writers, I don’t like the marketing and promotion side of writing. These days we don’t just sit down and write a book, send...
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Why I Read and Write Crime FictionBy Margaret Lucke Why is it that, when crime is so appalling, crime fiction is so appealing? Both as a reader and a writer,...
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Launching a New Book by Heather HavenLaunching a new book is exciting, scary, and uncheap. Uncheap is not supposed to be a word but I hesitate to write that launching a new...
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What Goes Under It AllI’m thinking about undergarments. Lest you think that’s peculiar, I’m a writer, working on a historical novel. And thinking about what my...
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Guest Blogger ~ Heather AmesTHE BOOK THAT DIDN’T WRITE ITSELF Some books almost write themselves. The plot sails along, the characters all interact as they should....
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GOOGLE IT!Eons ago, when I wrote my first book, I actually had to go to the library to research untraceable poisons, fast acting poisons, skin absorption...
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Exploring for IdeasI began the Anita Ray series in 2010 with Under the Eye of Kali . Anita Ray now appears in five books and numerous short stories,...
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Where Reading Leads: Misty of Chincoteague and MeI ask you to come along on a tale. I first read Misty of Chincoteague when I was eight, which led me to consume Marguerite...
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Merging Fact With Fiction by Karen ShughartI’ve been a contributing blogger for Ladies of Mystery for roughly five years, and initially, at the beginning of each year, I made a list of the...
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Guest Blogger – Nev MarchThe Friend I Left Behind Late night–no, was already morning. I read through an email when my gaze snagged on a name. I...
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A Novel Writer’s Travels: Inspiration or Distraction?Torres del Paine National Park, Chile I recently spent nearly three weeks in the Patagonian regions of Argentina and Chile, on a tour...
