Folk Horror Elements: How to Use Them
I learned long ago that my love of mystery and horror is uncommon. Some people who revel in writing murder[…]
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Partners and Sidekicks: The Power of a Dynamic Duo
Dynamic Duos: Batman and Robin or Lewis and Hathaway?
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No. 10 Doyers Street by Radha Vatsal: A story of NYC on the cusp of modernity
I’m thrilled to welcome Radha Vatsal to Miss Demeanors for a peek into her exciting new historical mystery, No. 10[…]
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Judy L. Murray: When Readers and Writers Celebrate Together
Please welcome July L Murray who has a fantastic approach to a book launch to share: My launch of the[…]
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Can a Book Spoiler Prove Fatal?
I had just begun the stage in the book production cycle when I reviewed the description copy written by my[…]
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Write Your Back Cover Blurb First
There are endless ways to write a story. Some authors pen their prose early in the morning or only at[…]
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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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Standing Up to My Inner Critic
Among the high points of 2012, my first year as a published novelist, was the Debut Authors breakfast held in[…]
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In Bowler Hat and By Bicycle, Harriet Morrow is On the Case!
Please welcome Rob Osler, here to tell us about designing the protagonist of his new historical series, and its first[…]
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Is it Contagious? COVID and Crime Fiction
The COVID conundrum in crime fiction
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