Miss Demeanors

Author: Emilya Naymark

Emilya Naymark is the author of the novels Hide in Place, out now, and Behind the Lie, out February 8, 2022. Her short stories appear in A Stranger Comes to Town, edited by Michael Koryta, Secrets in the Water, After Midnight: Tales from the Graveyard Shift, River River Journal, Snowbound: Best New England Crime Stories 2017, and 1+30: THE BEST OF MYSTORY. She lives and writes in the Hudson Valley

The Misses Procrastinate. Or Not.

September 17, 2021
Emilya Naymark

Procrastination and writing seem to go together (though not for all of us. Read on.), and as a result many writers have very clean closets, fridges, and bathrooms, and their friends/family are often nicely outfitted with hand-knit thingies. Staring at a screen or a notebook can be so intimidating, the critic’s voice so snarky, that I, for one, will invent any project to free me from the angst. And I like writing!

So, I asked the Misses if this was a thing for them.

September 8, 2021
Emilya Naymark

Today is International Literacy Day

–and what better way to celebrate than by taking a peek at three gorgeous historical novels set in days when literacy was not only rare, but, for some, deathly dangerous.

August 30, 2021
Emilya Naymark

August 30th is National Frankenstein Day! Frankenstein, written in 1818 by an eighteen-year-old Mary Wollstoncraft Godwin Shelley, remains an amazingly relevant story to this day.

August 19, 2021
Emilya Naymark

A few weeks ago I posted about novelizations and looking forward to Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”. Well, I got my paws on it and ladies and gentlemen, it’s a BLAST.

August 10, 2021
Emilya Naymark

I find that even as little as an hour in a museum alters how I see the world, and suddenly even trash begins to look like a sculpture.

July 30, 2021
Emilya Naymark

I decided to ask the Misses about which films or books they thought aged well, and which didn’t.

July 21, 2021
Emilya Naymark

A novelization offers the opportunity to deepen the characters, show backstory, introduce tertiary characters and really give us an insight into a character’s soul. More than anything, a novelization well done will improve the experience of the film’s storyline, broaden the world.

July 12, 2021
Emilya Naymark

If you write something and publish it, someone is going to have a nagging suspicion you wrote about them.

July 1, 2021
Emilya Naymark

Music and other artists’ creativity is infectious. How consuming art can improve everything, from a sad day to a plot hole.

June 22, 2021
Emilya Naymark

Turns out, broilers can be anywhere and nowhere, powered by gas or electricity, and mistaking a gas broiler for a storage cabinet can have…erm… torrid consequences.