A Blog for Readers and Writers of Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction
I was going to draw up a list of great books to read for Memorial Day, and then I happened to wander over to the American Writers Museum and saw that they had already compiled a wonderful list. So I thought perhaps I might just borrow/steal/be inspired by it.
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I raised four kids, spent years taking care of my mother, have survived illness and grief and various other disasters,[…]
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All I knew about the great mystery writer Agatha Christie was that she wrote many of my favorite mysteries and[…]
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Tonight is the official opening of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. It’s also Charlotte Bronte’s birthday. So appropriate[…]
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Do you have superpowers? How about the characters in your mystery novels? I was reading mystery author and fabulous agent[…]
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I spent last weekend at the NY Pitch Conference, working with authors who were pitching their books to publishing agents[…]
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Come this Thursday I’ll be leading a workshop at the New York Pitch Conference. This is where I sold my[…]
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Some years back the Mystery Writers of America had an open call for stories about odd partners. I came up[…]
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Last night I went to the Morgan Library’s new exhibit on Hans Holbein the Younger, who lived and worked in England during the reign of King Henry VIII. The exhibit was titled “Capturing Character,” and, as a writer, it was fascinating to have a chance to look closely at these paintings.
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I’ve been reading Amor Towle’s miraculous novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, which is about a man sentenced to live out his life at the Hotel Metropol. Definitely better than being sent to Siberia, but years of house arrest do wear on him. Though they also force him to grow. The novel set me to thinking about which hotel to which I would like to be exiled. That led me to ask my fellow Miss Demeanors which they would choose, and they had many wonderful things to say.
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