Current mood: curious

Category: Life…

I received some good news Thursday: I can now list two more publishing credits to my name.

Woohoo!

The University of South Alabama's award-winning, student-run fine arts review magazine, ORACLE, accepted and published two of my submitted works in their latest issue. It's only published during the spring and is a joint effort between the English and Fine Arts Departments.

My published works included a short fictional story, Big Red: A Love Story,…

You can't imagine what it's been like. When we first started dating he was so complimentary. He seemed like the perfect man. Then gradually he changed. He started saying he didn't want to go out in public because he saw envy in other men's eyes. He thought other guys pretended to be his friend just so they could get to me and take me away from him.

Things got weirder and weirder. He became obsessed with the idea that I might leave him, and he insisted that he couldn't live without me.…

Here's a short story you'll want to read with the lights on. Inspired by true events, OUIJA is the story of a woman who opens a box that should never be opened.

You know what they say about curiousity...

OUIJA

by Cheryl Kaye…

The above truism seems to be my mantra these days. While I've always written, even did a column for the high school newspaper back in the day, I take rejection very seriously. Too seriously according to my fabulous and talented daughter. She maintains I would have been a great children's writer if only I had forged ahead despite those early" we're not looking for a story in this vein" form letters. Me? Not so sure. After all, there are only so many ways to tell the story of a bunny who…

I'd like to put the focus on chapters for a moment. You can belong to Sisters in Crime without joining a chapter--but if you don't belong to a chapter, you could be missing some of the most rewarding benefits and opportunities that SinC can offer.

For starters, chapters are one of the best ways to get to know your fellow Sisters in Crime--the people who love mysteries the way you do. The people who write the mysteries you read--or read the mysteries you write.

I have writer…

Hello, all:

I wanted to let my fans know that my Amazon Shorts mystery story, "Gone But Not Forgotten," has now gone live.

Check it out at:

http://www.amazon.com/Gone-But-Not-Forgotten/dp/B000V5BQF2/ref=dp_shrt_new_0/105-8578817-1565202?ie=UTF8&qid=1187620016&sr=1-1

Coming soon is another…

Sarah Weinman's blog today is full of fascinating mystdery-related subjects. It deals with Marilyn Stasio, the mystery critic for the New York Times but contains among other matters this quote from an exchange between P.D.James and Lawrence Block about the morality of the mystery protagonist:

"L.B.: In the earliest American hard-boiled fiction, there were heroes who were virtually criminals themselves. Even Sam Spade was absolutely a cold-blooded…

http://www.fwointl.com/artman/publish/article_1003.shtml

For those who have been following my virtual book tour, the information in this interview won't reflect anything new, but I've very pleased to have a write up on this website. I found this site via my publisher.

Posted by Sheila Connolly

In case I haven't mentioned it, I'm writing a mystery series that involves an apple orchard. Set in the rolling hills of western Massachusetts, the story begins when my protagonist decides to fix up a colonial house her family owns in order to sell it, and finds that it comes with an orchard. I would say an "old orchard," except that apples trees don't live for centuries. But she learns that there has been an orchard on that (fictional) spot since the…

They were the best of friends, and what one didn’t think of the other did. I think they started planning while they were still in high school. Why else would one go away right after graduation and the other stay behind?

She hung around my store, lonely, like me. I really felt…

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