Great Expectations and Bad Breakups
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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Category: Mystery Community
Why Write Now?
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
The COVID conundrum in crime fiction
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Self care for Writers
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
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
I decided this year to challenge myself as a writer, and am attempting a stand alone historical between my Nora[…]
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Reading and Writing with a Reviewer’s Eye
I am thrilled to welcome award winning author Jodé Millman to the Miss Demeanors. Jodé reviews books for Booktrib.com and she[…]
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A Coroner’s Guide to Writing Autopsy Scenes: Dr. Christina VandePol
The banner shows a modern autopsy table. If your crime book contains an autopsy scene, you want to get it[…]
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Interview with Robyn Gigl
Today I’m chatting with Robyn Gigl, the author of the award winning attorney Erin McCabe mystery series. Robyn, TIME Magazine[…]
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New Dealmakers
Publishers Marketplace, an on-line resource about the publishing industry, features many wonderful bits of information. One of them is a[…]
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