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I’m reading The Searcher by Tana French now because when it first came out, I wasn’t very focused for a[…]
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I’m reading The Searcher by Tana French now because when it first came out, I wasn’t very focused for a[…]
Read moreBruce Robert Coffin is a retired police detective sergeant and bestselling author of the Detective Byron Mysteries. He lives and[…]
Read moreLast month I wrote to you about characters having music identities. This month I thought we’d look at the different ways[…]
Read moreBefore I was a writer, I was a reader. And I read mostly mysteries, biography, history and some literary fiction. […]
Read moreMichele: Welcome Arlene Kay to Miss Demeanors until you see how far Arlene takes her research! Make sure you click[…]
Read moreSo, I’ve been thinking a lot about how the publishing industry is upside down. Authors are the ones who bring[…]
Read moreVanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. I thought we would pose[…]
Read moreI was going to write about something else, but the news of Sinéad O’Connor’s passing hit me a bit hard,[…]
Read moreI periodically post a reminder to readers about how valuable their input is to the success of a book. Since[…]
Read moreMichael Connelly, author of the Harry Bosch series, spoke about his career and this protagonist in particular, at ThrillerFest earlier[…]
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