Crafting True Crime: Trial by Ambush
For our readers, a Christmas present from the incomparable John Valeri, host of Central Booking podcast, a writer, readers and[…]
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A Coroner’s Guide to Writing Autopsy Scenes: Dr. Christina VandePol
The banner shows a modern autopsy table. If your crime book contains an autopsy scene, you want to get it[…]
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LISTENING TO PODCASTS FOR RESEARCH
I listen to art crime podcasts to farm for ideas and to research specific topics. Here are a few I recommend:[…]
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Writing Fiction VS Non~
I just received the cover of a new nonfiction book that includes an essay I wrote, and that had me[…]
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A primer on Death Notification Teams
I’m currently writing book three of my art thriller trilogy. The other day I was writing away, minding my own[…]
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Business or Pleasure?
My husband and I returned last Monday from a long-awaited trip to England. The most common question we were asked was, “Are you here for business or pleasure?” We answered truthfully. “Both.”
My main purpose was to scout out locations and inspirations for the next Kate Hamilton mystery, but there’s no harm in enjoying yourself at the same time, right
If Walls Could Talk
Last week my husband and I spent the better part of a day trekking on Dartmoor in Devon. There we saw stone walls built in the 1300s. The stones, we were told, were so skillfully fitted together, they rarely fall. These dry stone walls have long outlived their human makers. They have witnessed births and deaths, celebrations and wars, abundance and famine. If walls could talk, think of the untold stories they would tell.
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Save the Old Ladies
No, not those old ladies…as far as I know we’re fine. What I’m talking about are the lovely old houses of the past–especially the “grand old ladies” of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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Do You Really Want To Know?
Research. Sometimes you learn things you don’t want to know.
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