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Martin Edwards on the “impossible crime” in The White Priory Murders

January 22, 2024 Marni Graff Book Covers, Creating Characters, Fiction, Historical Mysteries, Inspiration, Mystery Community, Writers inspirations

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

If you love a word, set it free

January 16, 2024 Lane Stone Contemporary Culture, Creating Characters, Uncategorized, Word choice

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

Happy New Year

January 1, 2024 Marni Graff #inspiration, Books, Creating Characters, Fiction, Inspiration, Mystery Community, Reading, Setting, Writers inspirations

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

Historical Sleuths

November 18, 2023 Marni Graff Books, Historical Mysteries, Reading, Uncategorized, Writers inspirations

I’ve been gathering research for a stand alone mystery set in 1926, for writing next year, while at the same[…]

Heather Critchlow: The Cal Lovett Files

October 30, 2023 Marni Graff Books, Creating Characters, Inspiration, Mystery Community, Tips and Tricks, Writers habits, Writers inspirations, Writing

“What parts of yourself do you have to sacrifice to earn a killer’s trust?” That’s the question Cal Lovett, the[…]

Naming Characters

October 6, 2023 Keenan Powell Creating Characters

Recently while working on a first draft, I realized that I had named several characters “TK” (To Come) which was getting confusing. So, when I ran into the fabulous Sybil Johnson, the author of Brush Up for Murder at Bouchercon, I asked her to guest write a blog post on the topic. And here is what she said:

I Have a Hangover (No, Not That Kind)

August 9, 2023 Connie Berry Writers inspirations, Writing

I just turned in the manuscript for A Collection of Lies, Book 5 in the Kate Hamilton Mysteries, and I’m in mourning. The book actually took eleven months to write, but the final three months were intense. I spent almost a year with those people in Devon, England. How can I blithely say, “Goodbye—nice knowing you?”

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