A note from Barry Eisler got me thinking about reading together, because my husband and I both enjoy his work. Early in my career as a teacher I gave up trying to make all my students read the same book. Although there are advantages, it's very hard to get that large a group to agree on anything for hundreds of pages. It always ended up with a few thrilled, many bored.
It's the same in other areas of my life. I've given books that I loved to friends who were either not impressed or…
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What I love about a good used book store is the undiscovered treasure that I always seem to discover. New stores obviously do not have the shelf space or the desire to carry something that is more than two years old and that wasn't a best seller during its time.
My last two forays to Green Apple Books have yielded these finds:…
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In July I sold another book!
If you've read Restore My Heart, you'll know that one of the hero's siblings is at loose ends at the end of the book. In the ensuing two years, a lot happens and ... well, you'll see. The new book's working title is Reclaim My Life and is a Witness Security Program story. The manuscript is due Dec. 1, and the tentative release date is 2009.
This is one that I haven't actually written yet, so I'll be very…
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Nobody much comes to my page, so this will probably not do much good. In a way it is symbolic of R.D. Wingfield's life as a mystery author. Nobody much cared -- or nobody in the publishing world cared enough to promote this writer. We have only a handful of Frost novels. The British eventually produced a wonderful television series based on some of them. But the novels are not well known and very hard to find. I eventually managed to find them in cheap paperback editions. And Wingfield gave…
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Fen: The plural of fan. Another word for "fans," as in people who like something, not cooling devices.
The Urban Dictionary
One of the greatest parts about the writing life is the chance it gives me to meet other writers--people whose work I love, and who, as it turns out, are huge fun to hang out
with. But…
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Today marks the third day of my virtual book tour. The entire schedule and all the links to articles and interviews are available on the Events page of my website,…
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Day 2 of Cheryl's 'Touring the World' virtual book tour - A minor glitch at virtualbooktourdenet.blogspot.com has postponed this interview's appearance there, so it is being posted at an alternate site temporarily.
Karina Fabian of Virtual Book Tour de'Net interviews Cheryl Kaye Tardif, author of Whale Song…
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Word Nerd talks it up this week with CrimeSpace member Eric Stone.
His second novel comes out in September. He talks about that book and more things here.
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I heard Laura Lippman speak a few months back, and she told about getting the idea for her newest book, What the Dead Know. It was a true story that sparked her idea, a news item of the sort that we hear every day. But sometimes that item takes root in your brain, and it doesn't go away until you write it down.
With each story I've written, that happens. I never say, "Okay, I'm going to write a book now." What happens is that the story starts in my…
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Check out my interview with Sam Harper, Detective, as a part of the Virtual Book Tour.
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Being left alone to work.
Okay, that's really strange. When I step back to look at it, I know that. When people take time off--when they dream about time off--they generally daydream themselves a day away from whatever it is they do for a living. A day away from the drudge and mudge. Dinners out, social gatherings, beer and cake and wahoo!
Well, sure, over the years I've done some of that. Kinda depends where I am at the…
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Title: THE LAST TESTAMENT
Author: Sam Bourne
Publisher: Harper Collins
Edition released: July 2007
ISBN: 978-0-00-720333-8
442 pages
Review by: Karen Chisholm
The blurb for THE LAST TESTAMENT reads along the lines of "The Biggest Challenger to Dan Brown's Crown" and "A brilliant new high-concept religious conspiracy theory thriller", which might put
some readers off, or at the very least set you up with…
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I started writing limericks in high school. That was before I got into trouble for publishing a high school look-alike of the 1950s Confidential magazine (a fictional version of the story appears in my mystery novel, The Hayloft). I no longer write scandal sheets, but I do still write limericks. Here are some of my mystery limericks:
Of hostage talks writes Jeffery…
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