There are so many definitions on what is what and what is supposed to be, but since you are the experts, IMP would like you to tell us your definition of a great mystery.

And don't hold back , tell us what you really think. After all, we did ask.

IMP

Blogs to the left of me, blogs to the right. Blogs here, blogs there. How many blogs can you read? Which ones do you read, and why? How do you find them?

I'm of course delighted that you're reading this one, and hope you'll come back. But just as you are overwhelmed by the choices you have, I'm a little overwhelmed by the fact that with no fewer than four blogs running (counting this one, and not counting my Navy letters blog, A World Ago, (…

OK, I'm not a blogger because actually I am so bone lazy that if I blogged, I would never get anything else done, least of all writing. This said, I should at least thank all the nice people who wanted to be my Crimespace friends. I'm still figuring out exactly how this all works, but I'll get it straight eventually. And I have to announce, of course, that my new historical mystery, A Treasury of Regrets, is going to be in bookstores in about three weeks. That'll keep me busy for a…

To all my new friends on Crimespace:

Meredith Anthony and I will be signing our new book, LADYKILLER, at New York's legendary Black Orchid bookstore on April 11 from 6-8 PM. Hope to see you there.

We'll also be doing a number of signings in Florida the week of April 14, ending up at Sleuthfest in Miami in April.

Email or message me if you want a list of where we'll be.

Thanks, Larry

When I write I like to use videos or DVD as "background music." Usually I choose old movies, but lately I've been enjoying all the TV shows from way-back-when now available on DVD. Today's choice was REMINGTON STEELE Season One.

These have held up very well--better than MOONLIGHTING, I think. They were very well-cast, and entertainingly written. In fact, I found myself so distracted--actually laughing outloud at times--that I got less writing done than I should have.

I…

Hello to all. Let me introduce myself to everyone, although I'm not in the classification of most here. I'm a newbie and heard about crimespace through the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and glad I did. This is a great idea for networking and blogging, let alone the invaluable association of like-minded writers.

Who needs a separate blog now that it's combined in the crimespace community? (How many of us will abandon our current blogs or opt to keep them and add this to our…

Some thoughts about author appearances, specifically at conferences. This is partly based on my

experiences at the Virginia Festival of the Book, which ended today. It

probably goes without saying that an author appearance is basically a

commercial: your opportunity to sell yourself to the attendees. If you do a

really good job, the people at your talk or reading will go on to rave about

you to all their…

Private boys’ schools have supplied rich fodder for novelists over the years. Witness Charles Dickens and the horrors of a 19th Century British school in “Nicholas Nickleby.” Witness “The Catcher in the Rye,” J.D. Salinger’s classic 1951 tale of Holden Caulfield, an abysmally unhappy and conflicted student in the process of leaving an eastern boys school. Witness John Knowles and his…

I've mentioned Crimespace to some of my e-groups and already some of the members have signed on!

Crimespace is a great site and I wish Daniel all the best! He's a genius to think all of this up.

Morgan Mandel

Honestly, the Sunday after you come back from holiday but before you go back into work is just so a day out of time. Like a bridge between two worlds. Which feels somewhat more twitchy this time, I think, as without my luggage I'm still not properly "back" yet. I hope to God that BA do deliver it tomorrow - I want my books! And my face cream. And my jumpers. Not to mention everything else that maximises my reality factor. Damn it.



Had a lazy lie-in today, a fact not…

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