Lost Hours my new novel being published by Whiskey Creek Press will be available in October. Here's what reviewers are saying:

Author D. K. Gaston develops a tantalizing, suspenseful story that draws…

My eighth novel, THE KEY is now available on amazon and at the discounted price! And I'm doing a giveaway. My sister made me these really cool bookmarks for the launch (that you can see here: http://www.paulinebjones.com/contests.htm and there are more on the way.) So, buy THE KEY, send me proof of purchase and I'll send one to the first responders until they are gone.…

I just wanted to share a bit of good news about my suspense novel, CROSSHAIRS. It was reviewed by Stephen Horowitz, Ph.D. of the Peppertree Literary Magazine who said:

"The story is full of twists and turns and loads of suspense. The reader is pulled along at a frenzied pace ... I highly recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good murder mystery."

Posted by Jeanne Munn Bracken

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. That statement might seem waaaaay off topic for the Writers Plot, but it's really on target. Because I moved from "some day maybe I'll be a writer" to "I am a published author" as a result of an event that would shake anybody's life to the core.

My toddler daughter was diagnosed with…

I'm about to start a series of talks at local libraries on mystery sub-genres, and it's led me to some interesting people. I wanted to offer my audiences two authors' work as representative of each sub-genre: one very successful author and one who is just getting started but is promising. Since my reading within the mystery genre as a whole is pretty eclectic, I thought finding enough examples would be easy. I advertised for nominations in the sub-genres I'm less familiar with, meaning to…

YA author Scott Westerfeld is this week's guest, chatting about his Uglies series and more.

Click here to read the interview.

posted by Doranna Durgin

These days, writers have different ideas about what they want done with their work. Those of us who write for a living tend to want control over how the work is displayed--and so do our publishers. Others of us sometimes want their work freely available, as widely as possible. The nice thing is, we can each make that choice for our own work, and proceed accordingly.

The not-so-nice thing is when others try to make that choice for…

Okay, fellow mystery writers, confess: Have you begun to see possibilities for murder in everyday situations? Does the idea cross your mind in certain instances that the world might be better off without _____, and you have just the method to accomplish it? Oh, it's only idle thought, and you'd never act on it, but it's the tiniest bit satisfying to realize that if you had to, you could make the world a better place and never get caught, right?

I thought so. Writing about murder…

R-rated trailer for No Country for Old Men online.



Latino Review offers their thoughts on the screenplay for Get Smart.



Trailer…

Mother Teresa’s rough face, aged with lines and colored from outdoor living, stared from the front of TIME’s Sept. 3, 2007, issue. I half expected to read she had received sainthood from Rome, but large white letters screamed "The Secret Life of Mother Teresa" and small white print whispered "Newly published letters reveal a be loved icon’s 50-year crisis with faith."

Last week, Bill Maher, host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO, showed off the magazine and even kissed it,…

Hi, everyone. I posted September's WHAT'S NEW at my website http://www.davidmorrell.net. This month, I've written a personal essay about my 6-part comic-book series CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN, which debuts this month. I also have a page of Mitch Breitweiser's amazing artwork. I can't describe how excited I am by this chance to work in a totally new medium and to try to say something meaningful in it.

Here are two interesting articles about…

SILENT COUNSEL Tour – September 4

Partners & Crime

New York, NY

www.CrimePays.com

We had a wonderful launch at Partners & Crime in Greenwich Village, in New York. There was a great turn out—upwards of 70 people, which pleased me no end. (And…