PROUST QUESTIONNAIRE WITH Lily Charles
It’s my pleasure to introduce you to the writing duo known as Lily Charles. Libby Ware and Charlene Ball use[…]
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Category: Fiction
Martin Edwards on the “impossible crime” in The White Priory Murders
For a Happy New Years gift, the wonderful and prolific Martin Edwards, crime novelist, savior of vintage crime, and one[…]
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year to all Miss Demeanors wonderful readers! Today I wanted to ring in 2024 by introducing you to[…]
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5 Ways ChatGPT (or Other AI) Can Help You, Without Writing FOR You
It’s been about a year since ChatGPT demonstrated our scariest science fiction scenarios were looming on the horizon. And yet,[…]
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An Author’s Responsibility
I’ve invited Nev March, an award winning author of crime fiction, to share her thoughts on an author’s responsibility to[…]
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“This couldn’t be set anywhere else.”
Have you said that about a mystery series or a TV show? Is that right? Sure, some series have ties[…]
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Los Angeles Mystery Author Delves Into A Sherlock Holmes Pastiche
An Interview with Jeri Westerson I confess! I’ve been a Sherlock Holmes fan since before I could read (well). Also,[…]
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Nancy Bilyeau’s The Orchid Hour
I’m thrilled to welcome Nancy Bilyeau to Miss Demeanors. Her latest novel, out now, delves into the glamour of Jazz Age New York and illuminates a time almost as liminal as our own. Society balanced between two world wars, between the Victorian Age and the modern one, between poverty and riches, with a malleable morality–look no further if you’d like to be swept away.
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Female Detectives to Die For
No, not Cagney and Lacey, although they remain a very popular team from television. Norwegian crime writer Anne Holt (ret.[…]
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Introducing Rosalie Spielman!
Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. I thought we would pose[…]
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