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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Later this summer I set sail across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary II, the perfect place for a locked room mystery! While much larger than Agatha Christie’s vessel in Death on the Nile, it has a common essential element – no one can come on or off. If you aren’t familiar with the idea of a locked room mystery, here are a few essentials and a confession.
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Self-publishing provides autonomy, insight, and velocity to a mystery author’s work. here’s a few of the benefits to authors.
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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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Launching a new book always feels a little like watching your child climb onto that big yellow school bus for the very first time. There she goes—your baby—into the big, wide world without you. In exactly a week—on May 10th—The Shadow of Memory, the fourth in the Kate Hamilton Mystery series, will make its debut. To celebrate, I’m giving away a signed copy (plus a few other goodies) to one lucky commenter during the month of May.
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When I wrote “the end” on the first fiction I’d ever written, I asked my wife to read it. She’s[…]
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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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Recently I’ve taken a step back from the cycle of writing, editing and marketing to get some perspective. And I[…]
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Congratulations on writing your mystery! And you want the world to see it! Today we’re talking about independent publishers.
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I finally got to travel last week, and I loaded my kindle with plenty of reading material. Four in one week is not my personal best, that is reserved for the vacation where I read a book a day, ran out of books, and had to find a bookstore in a panic before the flight home. Obviously before kindles. I read a mystery novel (times 2), a memoir, and a sliver of vampire fiction by Octavia Butler, who never disappoints in the “taking a trope and turning it inside out, on its head, and sideways” department.
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