5 QUESTIONS FOR EVERY WRITER
Writers are known to be introspective, often overthinking, mulling existential issues ad nauseum. But periodically, there is value to posing[…]
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Category: #inspiration
Why do we write?
Last night I was teaching an Intro to Fiction class on Zoom. It was 9:30 p.m., class winding down, when[…]
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Lynda Allen: Flashes of Insight
I was recently at the Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival in Suffolk, Virginia, a yearly event I enjoy attending because it[…]
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THE VERDICT IS IN
File this post under, “You couldn’t make this stuff up” or “What I learned during eight weeks of a[…]
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Sense of Scents
Whether it’s a bus belching fumes as it rounds a corner, or the sweet scent at the back of a[…]
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WRITERS WHO LEFT A HOLE IN MY HEART
I am a reader who looks forward to new releases by my favorite authors. I know Tana French has[…]
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The Millionaire: Is Truth for Sale?
The tagline for The Millionaire (Is Truth for Sale?) came to me when I sat at my keyboard, metaphorically bleeding from the forehead, trying to boil down the essence of the book into a catchy phrase, eight words or shorter.
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Pea-Soup Fog & Monkey Glands: Ten Reasons Why Victorian England is the Perfect Setting for Murder
“Sexual repression, dark alleys, great detectives, ornate prose,” says author James McCreet (“Why we all love a Victorian Murder,” The Guardian, 15 May 2011). “No wonder the 19th century is our template for crime fiction. A murder is somehow more quintessentially English when committed on the cobbles of a foggy East End alley. If there’s a silhouetted top hat, a rustle of crinoline and a scream cut short with straight razor, all the better.”
I couldn’t agree more. Here are my Top Ten Reasons why Victorian England is the perfect setting for murder:
Walking Dickens’ London
One of the great pleasures of going to London, (which is where I am now), is that you have the[…]
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