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On Persistence

July 21, 2022 Catherine Maiorisi #inspiration, Books, Uncategorized, Writing

Last week at the Golden Crown Literary Society’s annual conference my book, The Disappearance of Lindy James, won a Goldie for the[…]

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Law in Fiction: Anatomy of a Scandal

July 14, 2022 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Fiction

Law in Faction: Factish or Fictiony – A Lawyer’s Review

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Mystery Writers: Why NaNoWriMo works

July 12, 2022 Tracee de Hahn #inspiration, Fiction

Words on the page. Most writers agree that this is the key ingredient to shift from wanting to be a writer to being a writer. It is certainly key to seeing your book in print. NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) was created with this in mind: words on the page. Fifty thousand words, ideally.

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Combining Inspiration

July 1, 2022 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Writing

I asked the Miss Demeanors: where did your inspiration come from?

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Titles, the Torture Of

June 20, 2022 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Writing

suffered so much over my first title. #amstillsuffering

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Word READ in front of shelves of books

Where do you get book recommendations?

June 3, 2022 Tracee de Hahn #inspiration, Books, Fiction

Fellow Miss Demeanors, where do you turn for a book recommendation? 

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Distracted

May 17, 2022 Susan Breen #inspiration

I raised four kids, spent years taking care of my mother, have survived illness and grief and various other disasters,[…]

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The Secret Identity of…SECRET IDENTITY

April 29, 2022 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Writing

Ideas come at you fast – and at weird times. Sometimes the best books take years to bake.

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A New Resource for the Aspiring Crime Writer: The Manuscript Academy

April 18, 2022 Keenan Powell #inspiration, Tips and Tricks

I just discovered a wonderful resource for the aspiring crime writer: The Manuscript Academy.

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What is your superpower?

April 8, 2022 Susan Breen #inspiration

Do you have superpowers? How about the characters in your mystery novels? I was reading mystery author and fabulous agent[…]

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