Are you cozy?
This week all sorts of cozy mystery writers and readers are huddling around our screens to take part in the[…]
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Month: July 2021
Ten Words We Need To Save
Every year new words are added to the English language. And every year words are lost. Here are my top ten words we need to save.
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Writers Workshops
In my last post, I talked about my favorite writing manuals and we received great recommendations in the comments. Today[…]
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You writing about me?
If you write something and publish it, someone is going to have a nagging suspicion you wrote about them.
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Pen names. To have or have not.
Did you ever consider using a pseudonym for your writing? Why or why not. And if you have a second writing life we don’t know about confess now! although you don’t have to give away your secret life just hint broadly.
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The More Things Change
New job, new state, new time zone. So, I turned to something old, The Yellow Room by Gaston Laroux. A[…]
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PAPYROPHILIA: Crazy about Notebooks
The rush from a new notebook. Do you relate to that phrase? If so, you may be a papyrophiliac. That[…]
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Have You Read All the Books Yet?
Who was the last person to have read every book in existence? Believe it or not, this is a hotly[…]
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How to Learn Mystery Writing
How do you learn to write mysteries? Stuck up in Alaska with no local Sisters in Crime, I have had[…]
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