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Partners and Sidekicks: The Power of a Dynamic Duo

June 12, 2025 Lori Robbins Creating Characters, Mystery Community, Writers, Writers inspirations

Dynamic Duos: Batman and Robin or Lewis and Hathaway?

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Conferences are part of a writer’s life.

May 12, 2025 Lane Stone Awards, Conferences, Mystery Community

From April 25-27, 2025 Bethesda, Maryland was where you wanted to be. Malice Domestic is a fan conference celebrating the[…]

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It’s Showtime! Tips for Moderating Author Panels

April 15, 2025 Mally Becker Conferences, Mystery Community, Promotion, Uncategorized, Writers, Writers' Conferences

I was starstruck the first time I moderated a panel of writers at a local library. I hadn’t finished the[…]

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Buried Treasure: Easter Eggs and Red Herrings

April 2, 2025 Lori Robbins Fiction, Language, Mystery Community, Reading, Tips and Tricks, Uncategorized

Easter eggs and red herrings are the buried treasure of crime fiction. One enlightens and the other obscures. Both reward the sharp-eyed reader.

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Great Expectations and Bad Breakups

February 27, 2025 Lori Robbins #inspiration, Editing, Fiction, Inspiration, Language, Mystery Community, Reading, Writers, Writing

Great Expectations and Bad Breakups: How writers craft endings that justify the means and means that justify the ends. See also: Miss Scarlet, in the Conservatory, with a Knife.

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Why Write Now?

February 4, 2025 Mally Becker #inspiration, Historical Mysteries, Inspiration, Mystery Community

I’m honored to join the fabulously talented and hard-working authors who are the Miss Demeanors, and I’m especially looking forward[…]

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Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction

January 23, 2025 Lori Robbins Contemporary Culture, Mystery Community, Publishing, Setting, Uncategorized, Writers, Writing

The COVID conundrum in crime fiction

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Self care for Writers

January 9, 2025 Lane Stone Mystery Community, Tips and Tricks, Writers, Writers habits

Let’s start with your skin. I apply a moisturizer that “helps shield blue light exposure” once or twice during a[…]

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Writing the Culinary Mystery: Recipes for Death and Detection

December 26, 2024 Lori Robbins Fiction, Inspiration, Mystery Community, Tips and Tricks, Writers inspirations

With or without the addition of poisonous compounds, fabulous meals and delicious desserts have a long history in crime fiction.[…]

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On Writing Historicals: Celeste Connolly and her Lady Petra series

November 19, 2024 Marni Graff Books, Creating Characters, Fiction, Historical Mysteries, Inspiration, Mystery Community, New Release, Writers

I decided this year to challenge myself as a writer, and am attempting a stand alone historical between my Nora[…]

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