Q & A with mystery writer Emmeline Duncan
Delighted to host Emmeline Duncan today. The second book in her Ground Rules Mystery series launched two weeks ago and she’s here to share some insights into her writing life.
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Category: Fiction
Hello World, Here I Come!
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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It’s a Mystery: Why I Love Criticism
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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Traveling Isn’t For Sissies: My Adventures At Left Coast Crime
With in-person events back in the universe, those of us who’ve spent two years holed up in our writing caves[…]
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Writing characters that matter
Some characters make a lasting impression. Whether writing or reading we want characters that are memorable. But in a good way, an authentic way. Perhaps even a character we can learn from. I recently came across a character that stood out from the very beginning.
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Grabbing Mystery Plots from the Headlines
Read about it in the newspapers or see it on TV news and a few weeks later you’re watching a[…]
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Mystery writing and exotic travel
Is there something you’d like to do that is just a touch out of reach, but the idea stays with you as a wonderful dream just the same?
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Vacation Reading: a Mystery Novel, a Memoir, another Mystery Novel, and Vampires
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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Edwin Hill – The Secrets We Share
I’m delighted to have Edwin Hill with us today! Edwin is the Edgar- and Agatha-award nominated author of three novels in the Hester Thursby series. His first standalone thriller, The Secrets We Share, will arrive in bookstores March 29th. (Comment on this post or on Facebook for a chance to win! But do it by launch day, March 29)
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The Point of Words
Although many living things communicate with each other (my dog certainly feels a burning need to let me know the mail has arrived the very moment it does), humans, at least on this planet, are the only ones who have language. And novels. And stories. And Instagram.
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