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None of This is True by Lisa Jewell

When you’ve been a writing teacher for as long as I have, it’s impossible to read a novel, especially a[…]

Please welcome guest author Laura Essay, who will discuss her novel centered on the opioid crisis, and what inspired her[…]

Nothing makes your characters pop off the page like well chosen phrases in their dialog. Have her use specific, well[…]

I was recently at the Suffolk Mystery Authors Festival in Suffolk, Virginia, a yearly event I enjoy attending because it[…]

Signs and portents, my dear readers, signs and portents. Last week, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake was felt all along the[…]

Whether it’s a bus belching fumes as it rounds a corner, or the sweet scent at the back of a[…]

I’m sitting here working on my couch with my dog Molly on my lap—which as you can imagine makes it[…]

For a Happy New Years gift, the wonderful and prolific Martin Edwards, crime novelist, savior of vintage crime, and one[…]

We’re writers and readers so of course we love words. Maybe too much sometimes? I remember a New Yorker cartoon[…]

Happy New Year to all Miss Demeanors wonderful readers! Today I wanted to ring in 2024 by introducing you to[…]