A Blog for Readers and Writers of Mystery, Crime, and Suspense Fiction
This week we’ve added two new writers to our roster. It’s exciting to read new voices and make new friends, but it’s also made me reflect on the almost three years it’s been since I got an e mail from our fabulous agent, Paula Munier, saying, Group blogs are great! You will love these people! Or words to that effect.
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Our newest Miss Demeanor (beating Connie Berry by three days!) is Laurie Chandlar, author of the Art Deco Mystery Series. I had a chance to ask Laurie some questions and this is what she had to say:
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That’s the title of one of the panels at the upcoming and new Gotham Writers Conference. There’s also a panel on Embracing Rejection, which I could moderate, and one on The Agent’s View: What We Talk About When We Talk About You, which I am moderating. As a long time Gotham teacher, I’m excited to see what this new venture is like, and so I turned to Josh Sippie, who’s organizing it, and asked him a few questions.
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Our second-to-newest Miss Demeanor just returned from the Malice Domestic conference and took some time to answer my questions about antiques, Scotland, and cute little dogs. This is how it all went:
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This week, two fabulous authors will be joining the Miss Demeanors team. They are Connie Campbell Berry and L.A. (Laurie) Chandlar, and much more about them to come. (Yes, that does mean that there are now the same number of Miss Demeanors as Supreme Court Justices, and only time will tell which group is more wise. But that’s a different discussion. ) In the mean time, I’ll be posting interviews with our new members over the course of this week, and I’m excited to get to know them.
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Writers are readers first. Reading is what drew us to writing and helps us hone our craft.
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A few weeks ago, I read a story in the Boston Globe that inspired a piece of short fiction, which I am working on. It was a review of Happy Place, one of those pop-up Instagrammable art exhibits that encourages people to do things like snap cell phone shots of themselves in a giant vat of candy. I’d gone to Candytopia in NYC because my kids wanted to do just that, and it had left a bad taste in my mouth. So I was curious to read what the Boston Globe had to say.
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This post was adapted from a recent talk I gave at my local hospital.
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Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of choosing an audiobook narrator for my upcoming domestic suspense novel One Little Secret. The process went pretty much as follows:
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I turned to my fellow Miss Demeanors to find out what their favorite tricks of the trade are. Here’s what they had to say. (If you’re counting, you’ll see we have one new member…stayed tuned for more about the fabulous Connie Berry).
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