Write what you know? Not really.
- March 4, 2021
- Tracee de Hahn

I write mysteries, which means someone will die. Probably in the first 15 pages. Does that mean I know how to kill someone? Well, sort of. But ONLY on paper.
Read MoreHow To Read a Zoom Room
- March 3, 2021
- Alexia Gordon

Reading a room, even when you’re not physically in it.
Read MoreWhere Do You Get Ideas?
- March 2, 2021
- C. Michele Dorsey

The question writers are asked most often seems to be, “Where do you get your ideas?” Since I was blessed to have a profession (lawyer) where I helped people solve their problems, I regularly witnessed the follies of human beings. Sitting in a courtroom every day, I was never bored and kept my ears, eyes, and a separate notebook open. I have more ideas than I’ll ever be able to use, but that’s not true for everyone.
Read MoreAgatha nominations
- March 1, 2021
- Susan Breen

It’s Agatha Award nominating time, which means that people in the cozy mystery community are going through the books and stories we’ve read this year and cogitating over which ones we’d like to nominate. (Ballots are due in electronically by March 6.)
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Adventures in Time Travel: Would You?
- February 26, 2021
- MIss Demeanors

I have two questions for you this week: First, if it were possible, would you travel back in time? Second, if you could land in any historical era, when would it be and why?
Read MorePlot Twist! Secrets, Lies, and Expectations.
- February 25, 2021
- Keenan Powell

If Jed Mercurio is a pantser, I’m a red herring.
Read MoreThe Mighty Pen
- February 24, 2021
- Emilya Naymark

A couple of years ago, back when we could do such things, I went to see a band at a Brooklyn nightspot. In performing what I thought would be a cursory rummage through my bag, the bouncers found my pens. All two dozen or so of them.
Read MoreHIDE IN PLACE – the new novel by Emilya Naymark
- February 23, 2021
- Tracee de Hahn

She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life.
When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she’s found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York.
But then the unthinkable happens: her boy vanishes.
Read MoreCelebrate Black History Month with Black Mystery Authors
- February 22, 2021
- Alexia Gordon

The history of Black American crime fiction dates back to the 1930s
Read MoreEat, Drink, and be Literary
- February 19, 2021
- C. Michele Dorsey

Welcome to By the Book, Miss Demeanors’ style. In the tradition of the New York Times Sunday feature, the question of the week is: You’re organizing a literary dinner party. Which three authors, dead or alive, do you invite, in addition to your fellow Miss Demeanors, of course?
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