A Trip to the Caribbean with Penny Goetjen
Note: Please see below for a chance to win a signed copy of Penny Goetjen’s mystery The Empty Chair: Murder[…]
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Category: Fiction
Building my own distillery
Before anyone starts checking local building codes and calling the inspector, it’s a fictional distillery, destined to exist only on the written page. But aren’t most of the places we love in books ‘only on the page?’
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A Writer’s Retreat of My Own
I’ve always been a bit in awe—and not a little jealous—when I read on social media that an author is heading out for a writer’s retreat. It’s the ultimate luxury in my book—days spent in uninterrupted thinking/plotting/writing. Here are my Top Ten reasons why a writer’s retreat is worth its weight in gold.
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Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Psychological Thrillers, Irish Style
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! March 17th is yet another excuse to steep myself in my rich Irish heritage. When I[…]
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The Intimate Moment
Some of the best fiction explores moments of intimacy and shows us relationships between people that are chilling as a result of that intimacy.
In no particular order, here are my favorite thrillers featuring two people locked in a struggle where love, hate, possession and obsession blur.
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It’s A True Story, I Swear
What real-life story would you like to see fictionalized on page or screen? Maybe a story inspired by a weird fact? History? The odd guy who lives down the street? The woman three doors down who only leaves the house on Thursdays?
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Write what you know? Not really.
I write mysteries, which means someone will die. Probably in the first 15 pages. Does that mean I know how to kill someone? Well, sort of. But ONLY on paper.
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Adventures in Time Travel: Would You?
I have two questions for you this week: First, if it were possible, would you travel back in time? Second, if you could land in any historical era, when would it be and why?
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Plot Twist! Secrets, Lies, and Expectations.
If Jed Mercurio is a pantser, I’m a red herring.
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HIDE IN PLACE – the new novel by Emilya Naymark
She left the NYPD in the firestorm of a high-profile case gone horribly wrong. Three years later, the ghosts of her past roar back to terrifying life.
When NYPD undercover cop Laney Bird’s cover is blown in a racketeering case against the Russian mob, she flees the city with her troubled son, Alfie. Now, three years later, she’s found the perfect haven in Sylvan, a charming town in upstate New York.
But then the unthinkable happens: her boy vanishes.
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