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The BBC and Me

posted by Leann Sweeney

Face it. You watch TV and you like it. I won't tell anyone. Between the monsoons and heat indexes approaching Fahrenheit 451 here in the Commonwealth of Texas, I prefer air conditioning. And I suffer no shame in admitting I am addicted to crime shows. I like the real life ones on Court TV. Forensic Files, LA Forensics, North Mission Road. And my new favorite is on Spike--a station I've never tuned into in my life until they created a new program called…

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Added by Writers Plot on August 18, 2007 at 12:44am — No Comments

Great But Not Real

Journal entry, day 17: " It's been hard, these last few weeks. I have to project an image that is totally false, and I have to be convincing. I'm not doing well, so it isn't hard to seem nervous, but I must be careful not to overdo it and pretend too much.

My nervousness isn't what people think at all. She was going to leave me, so I killed her. I buried her body eight feet down in my garden and covered it with two feet of soil. Then I killed a stray dog, laid it in the hole, and…

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Added by Peg Herring on August 17, 2007 at 10:34pm — 2 Comments

Writing When Away from the Keyboard

Some people seem to think about their current project whenever they are doing mundane, routine tasks. That has never happened to me unless I make a conscious effort. I wonder why that is, but I

have no answer.





I guess there must be other writers out there like me, and I wonder if they try to remember to think about their stories while doing other things. It does save time when you finally get to

sit down and…

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Added by Jan Christensen on August 17, 2007 at 8:06am — No Comments

Marketer's Dilemma

The hardest part of our job as writers is to become known, to connect with our readers or potential readers. No matter how big or small your publisher, your marketing budget has finite limits. With small publishers, though, it’s particularly difficult—not only doesn’t the publisher pay for much in the way of publicity or promotion, but advances are so small that it’s difficult to decide where to spend that hard-earned…

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Added by Michael W. Sherer on August 17, 2007 at 7:14am — 1 Comment

Juvenilia

By Cornelia

A lot of girls who grew up to write mysteries first got hooked on the genre because they loved reading Nancy Drew as children. Nancy held no interest for me. I figured her friend George was entirely too latent, and Bess was just inane. Nancy's beau whatshisface was, meanwhile, a huge drag and lacking even the most slender iota of testosterone. Not… Continue

Added by Cornelia Read on August 17, 2007 at 7:05am — No Comments

Day 16 of Cheryl's virtual book tour: Chapter 2 of Divine Intervention, a psychic suspense

Drop by Criminal Minds at Work for Chapter 2 of Cheryl Kaye Tardif's psychic suspense Divine Intervention, a novel that pits a team of psychic government agents against a deadly serial arsonist who is leaving a blazing trail of bodies behind.

Or…

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Added by Cheryl Kaye Tardif on August 17, 2007 at 5:07am — No Comments

FINISHED!!!!!!

I just clicked the send button forwarding the completely edited version of Tree Huggers to my editor. It's done, it's over, it's gone, it's an SEP (Somebody Else's Problem). This thing been dogging me all summer, and I'm just glad that I don't have to think about it any more.

I'd have sent it out yesterday, but some computer glitch turned every quotation mark into a vertical line and I had to go through the entire file to change every one manually (Yes, I thought about using "find and…

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Added by Judy Nichols on August 17, 2007 at 4:10am — No Comments

All The News That's Fit to Print

During the past few weeks, I've been almost completely focused on finishing the fourth book in the candy shop series, so I haven't really lifted my head for much, except to moan about yet another day where the temperature soars over 100 degrees. One thing that has caught my attention, though, is the story of the trapped coal miners who are buried in the Crandall Canyon…

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Added by Sammi Carter on August 16, 2007 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Confessions of a Candy Store Criminal

"Priests can't tell what people confess, right? What I say in here is secret and you can't repeat it even if they put you in jail or whatever? You've heard what I told the girls, and most of it is true, but there's more, if you can keep it to yourself.

“Good, ‘cause I really need to talk to someone and my parents are...well, they’re parents. ‘This is for your own good’ and ‘You’ll understand when you have kids of your own.’ I’m not having kids, ever. In fact I’m thinking of becoming a…

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Added by Peg Herring on August 16, 2007 at 10:23pm — No Comments

Who to leave in and who to leave out

There's been some discussion on various writers's forums and blogs

about certain conferences only allowing writers who are on certain

"approved publishers" lists to sell their books or participate in

conference panels or presentations.



This is unfortunate, because when a conference limits participation, that conference, in many ways,

can do a disservice to the reading and writing community. There is

simply no way that fewer choices can be better.



So… Continue

Added by Love Is Murder Conference on August 16, 2007 at 11:29am — 2 Comments

Day 15 of VBT: Cheryl Kaye Tardif talks about the assisted suicide theme in her bestselling novel Whale Song

Book reviewer and film critic Jack Anthony interviews author Cheryl Kaye Tardif about Whale Song, the Controversial Novel that Explores Assisted Suicide…

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Added by Cheryl Kaye Tardif on August 16, 2007 at 7:26am — No Comments

Missed Illusions

There's a time in every writer's life where you're facing what might be your big break. Mine happened when I was working as a Congressional Fellow for Senator Kennedy in the late 1980's. His deputy press person told me about a friend of hers who was an agent with the William Morris Agency. Ah. And for most of my life, people had been telling me to write that book of all books about what it really was like being deaf in a hearing world, or trying to be deaf in the deaf world, or trying not to be… Continue

Added by Karen J. Laubenstein on August 16, 2007 at 6:14am — No Comments

I should be writing...

I have a December deadline and ten pages written, so...what am I doing here, you might ask?

Procrastinating, of course. I've never blogged before, and I fear that the number of words I write here will be in inverse proportion to the ones I write for the new book, tentatively entitled BEAN THERE, DONE THAT. At least, that's what I want to call it. I have a feeling my editor will want the word "grounds" in the title to match the first two books in my…

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Added by Sandra Balzo on August 16, 2007 at 3:52am — 4 Comments

Step Right Up, Ya Can't Win If Ya Don't Play...

Be sure to drop by Murderati
today and check out the contest I'm running there. You have to come up
with a line from a mystery or thriller novel containing something a
well-known character would be highly unlikely to say or do. Prizes
include free books by Your Humble Narrator.

Added by J.D. Rhoades on August 16, 2007 at 12:22am — No Comments

A Complaint, and Quite Rightly

Letter to the Editor

New York Times

Sept. 12, 1963…

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Added by Peg Herring on August 15, 2007 at 11:00pm — No Comments

British railway detective series

Just finished The Lost Luggage Porter by Andrew Martin http://www.jimstringernovels.com/page2.htm. Luuuuuuved this book! The tone/voice and the atmosphere--fabulous, completely original! There was one moment early on, when the detective has a conveniently chance meeting with the men who ultimately become the murder victims, which I was a little disappointed with. But then what Martin did with that moment... luuuuved it. So unpredictable,… Continue

Added by Gigi Vernon on August 15, 2007 at 7:30pm — No Comments

Celebrating with Friends

I have attended many celebrations for finishing a novel. Today I attended another, although it had to be squeezed in due to all the work Dana Stabenow is making us all do for Bouchercon. Lol. What was different about this one? It was intimate. We watch a film, Full Monty, and had wonderful food. We sat on a living room floor, some knitted, some crocheted and some just stared at the telly and made rude comments. There were only 8 of us, but the joy in helping our friend celerate the…

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Added by Louisa Christy on August 15, 2007 at 7:27pm — No Comments

Shark Bait, Susan Geason

I'm reminiscing through the TBR stacks at the moment and Shark Bait by Susan Geason caught my eye. Full review at:


http://www.austcrimefiction.org/node/2282

Added by Karen from AustCrime on August 15, 2007 at 1:07pm — No Comments

Writers need a bit of snake-oil-saleman's charm



Waiting for March ’08, when my book "Chasin’ the Wind" finally makes it into bookstores, has been frustrating. I turned in the final copy of the novel to the first editor in mid December. I would take it as personal if the publishers’ panel at SleuthFest, held in Miami in March, hadn’t discussed that it takes up 16 months from acceptance to publication.

After the New Year, I began working on a sequel, though I had no…

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Added by Michael Haskins on August 15, 2007 at 9:33am — No Comments

Day 14 of Cheryl Kaye Tardif's VBT: An excerpt from THE RIVER, a terrifying thriller

Today's stop is at The Write Type ~ Multi-Author Musings, and I am sharing Chapter 1 of The River, an action-packed thriller that explores nanotechnology, painful youth serums and a deadly conspiracy, with the Nahanni River in Canada's rugged Northwest Territories as its isolated and mysterious backdrop.

One

She always leads with her heart,” a voice croaked.

Startled by the…

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Added by Cheryl Kaye Tardif on August 15, 2007 at 3:40am — No Comments

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