Playing Fair: Do the Rules of Mystery Still Apply?
CWAB0D Agatha Christie, 1944. Courtesy: CSU Archives/Everett Collection
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CWAB0D Agatha Christie, 1944. Courtesy: CSU Archives/Everett Collection
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Read moreThis week we’ve added two new writers to our roster. It’s exciting to read new voices and make new friends, but it’s also made me reflect on the almost three years it’s been since I got an e mail from our fabulous agent, Paula Munier, saying, Group blogs are great! You will love these people! Or words to that effect.
Read moreOur newest Miss Demeanor (beating Connie Berry by three days!) is Laurie Chandlar, author of the Art Deco Mystery Series. I had a chance to ask Laurie some questions and this is what she had to say:
Read moreThat’s the title of one of the panels at the upcoming and new Gotham Writers Conference. There’s also a panel on Embracing Rejection, which I could moderate, and one on The Agent’s View: What We Talk About When We Talk About You, which I am moderating. As a long time Gotham teacher, I’m excited to see what this new venture is like, and so I turned to Josh Sippie, who’s organizing it, and asked him a few questions.
Read moreOur second-to-newest Miss Demeanor just returned from the Malice Domestic conference and took some time to answer my questions about antiques, Scotland, and cute little dogs. This is how it all went:
Read moreThis week, two fabulous authors will be joining the Miss Demeanors team. They are Connie Campbell Berry and L.A. (Laurie) Chandlar, and much more about them to come. (Yes, that does mean that there are now the same number of Miss Demeanors as Supreme Court Justices, and only time will tell which group is more wise. But that’s a different discussion. ) In the mean time, I’ll be posting interviews with our new members over the course of this week, and I’m excited to get to know them.
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