Combining Inspiration
I asked the Miss Demeanors: where did your inspiration come from?
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Category: #inspiration
Titles, the Torture Of
suffered so much over my first title. #amstillsuffering
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Where do you get book recommendations?
Fellow Miss Demeanors, where do you turn for a book recommendation?
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Distracted
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
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
I just discovered a wonderful resource for the aspiring crime writer: The Manuscript Academy.
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What is your superpower?
Do you have superpowers? How about the characters in your mystery novels? I was reading mystery author and fabulous agent[…]
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Letters From Beyond the Grave: In Fiction and Real Life
Spoiler Alert! The Letter in Fiction In series six of the popular crime fiction television show, Shetland, Donna is on[…]
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Publishing roulette
I spent last weekend at the NY Pitch Conference, working with authors who were pitching their books to publishing agents[…]
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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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