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Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
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Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
Read moreI’m talking about writers’ conferences, not relationships! Returning last week from Left Coast Crime in Bellevue, Washington, I found a flurry of comments in my inbox, addressing the question: was it worth it? It’s a good question to ask.
Read moreI was recently at the Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival in Suffolk, Virginia, a yearly event I enjoy attending because it[…]
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Read moreSigns and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]
Read moreFile this post under, “You couldn’t make this stuff up” or “What I learned during eight weeks of a[…]
Read moreI’ve been addicted to short stories since reading Shirley Jackson’s, “The Lottery.” Although only 3,400 words long, that story has[…]
Read moreIs the road to hell really paved with adverbs? Heavens! None of us wants to commit a mortal writing sin, and so new writers are advised to ruthlessly cut them out of our writing. Your writing will always be stronger without them, we’re told. But is this advice always true?
Read moreWho said that about whom? Of course, that’s how F. Scott Fitzgerald, through Nick, described Daisy Buchanan’s voice in The[…]
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