December 2008 Blog Posts (187)

Competition - Win a Copy of D-E-D Dead! and Sensitive New Age Spy by Geoff McGeachin

Geoff McGeachin has a third Alby Murdoch book due out in January and he very generously has offered copies of the first two books as a competition via AustCrime. If you like broad, irreverent, Australian humour, laced with a bit of spying, a lot of lunching and some very nice coffee - these could be the books for you!

http://www.austcrimefiction.org/node/4943

No geographical restrictions :)

Added by Karen from AustCrime on December 4, 2008 at 12:51pm — No Comments

Party at Kate's Mystery Books!

This Friday is the annual holiday/booksigning party atKate's Mystery Books.

Check out the authors who will be signing! Come if you can. Call to order a signed book if you can't!

Holiday Party Schedule:

5:30-6:15

Steve Anable

Linda Barnes

Sibylle Barrasso

Gary Braver

Jan Brogan

Susan Conant

Joe Finder

Kate Flora

Gary Goshgarian

Robert Parker

6-6:45

Judy… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on December 4, 2008 at 5:07am — No Comments

Citizens' Police Academy: Narcotics Squad-Part One

(Cross posted to Working Stiffs)

The one session of Citizens’ Police Academy that I missed last time around was the Narcotics Squad. This week, I made up that session. When Sgt. Doug Epler started unpacking his props, I sensed this was going to be interesting. I was especially intrigued by a car battery sitting on the floor among the cases and boxes of drug paraphernalia. Was there a… Continue

Added by Annette Dashofy on December 4, 2008 at 12:40am — No Comments

Check Out The New Official Pauline Rowson Web Site

The new Official Pauline Rowson Web Site is now live and looking good. If you haven't already discovered it there is a lot on it, including information on all the DI Horton Marine Mystery crime novels, the thrillers, my play, Murder at the Pelican Club, and my marketing and motivational books with widgets where you can listen to previews.

There are also videos of me being interviewed by Raychel Harvey-Jones… Continue

Added by Pauline Rowson on December 4, 2008 at 12:31am — No Comments

Is It Funny or Is It Stupid?

I have a friend who's a psych major, and he claims that no generation can understand the humor of another generation. His logic goes that humor is an accumulation of life events, so Boomers, for example, see humor in things others don't, and vice versa.

What I see in a lot of today's humor is stupidity. Characters that are considered hilarious by the standards of television, movies, and stand-up audiences are to me pitiful at best, disgusting at worst. Otherwise intelligent people in… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 3, 2008 at 10:38pm — 2 Comments

NaNoEdMo

Now that NaNoWriMo is over (WHEW!) and the carpal tunnel epidemic has reach global proportions, is anyone going to try NaNoEdMo next March to try to perhaps 'de-wordify' our NaNo tales? I was thinking it might be fun and also help me to commit to doing some serious editing on a story I genuinely like. Anyone else?

Added by J. F. Juzwik on December 3, 2008 at 4:22am — 1 Comment

You're invited to my December Virtual Book Tour!

My virtual book tour officially kicked-off yesterday. The first of several articles, interviews, and reviews of my second book, "The Devil Can Wait" have been published. You'll find them at the following links.

Dec. 1 - Fiction Scribe (interview) www.fictionscribe.com

Dec. 1 -- Joylene Nowell Butler (interview) http://cluculzwriter.blogspot.com/

Dec. 2 - The Dark Phantom (guest post) www.thedarkphantom.wordpress.com

Rose and Thorn Reviews (book… Continue

Added by Marta Stephens on December 3, 2008 at 2:01am — No Comments

Interview

The interview done by Delores Walker is now available at her blogspot, http://deloreswalker.blogspot.com/ I hope you will click over and see what great
questions she pummeled me with :)

Added by Kim Smith on December 3, 2008 at 1:20am — No Comments

I've Finally Seen: QUANTUM OF SOLACE

The highest compliment I can pay Quantum of Solace is I believed the conceit that it picks up twenty minutes after Casino Royale. Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, and the other returning actors are on their game. The overarching mission to uncover the organization behind Mr. White drives the action at the same breathless pace. I wouldn't mind if all Craig's Bond movies kept this continuity.

That said,… Continue

Added by Gerald So on December 2, 2008 at 11:01pm — No Comments

Another Cool Review

I often like to use this blog to point you to an interesting website, even if it is my own. Today I’d like to introduce you to Kayla Williams.

I met Kayla at one of my many Mall store book signings. She is a military veteran and author of “Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army.” The book is her very honest account of her Iraq service. Her personal memoir recounts the fear, bad weather, intermittent supplies, inedible meals and crushing boredom of life in the… Continue

Added by Austin S. Camacho on December 2, 2008 at 11:00pm — No Comments

Oh, the Weather Outside Is Frightful

I guess Winter decided not to wait for its official entry date. Michigan got hit big-time with snow yesterday and is expecting more ... and more. Being a native, I know that one has to look at the bright side.

First, it's pretty. The trees are hung with white, the ground is smoothed and uniform.

Second, it's probably necessary in some geo-scientific way. Snow is water, water is good, right?

Third, it slows everybody down, at least the intelligent ones. You'd best not be in… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 2, 2008 at 9:41pm — No Comments

Mythica Publishing - Contract Signed

I'm delighted to have sold my YA short story 'Arcadia 22 Heavy - Mayday!' to the newly formed Mythica Publishing for e-book publication. Mythica is owned by my good friend Graeme S Houston, and I'm thirlled to be able to support his new venture by having one of my works published by his new company. As usual, Graeme has designed a wonderul cover to go with the book, as you can see here. Mythica is open to submissions and can be found at… Continue

Added by Brian L Porter on December 2, 2008 at 9:04pm — No Comments

Tale Two: Ghost Brides, and other strange things people do with dead bodies

Call me morbid (which you kinda have to be when you’re a mystery writer), but I was fascinated to read an article put out by CNN, which describes all the strange things people do with dead bodies. Read post here.

Added by Kathryn Lilley on December 2, 2008 at 7:37pm — No Comments

"Probable Claws" ARC winners!

Drumroll, please....

The winners of advance, uncorrected reading copies of my April mystery, "Probable Claws," are Gina Teh, Krista Schnee, and Debbie Bogenschutz! My good friend and fellow author Vicki Croke ("The Lady and the Panda," among other books) drew three names at random for me. These three advance readers… Continue

Added by Clea Simon on December 2, 2008 at 2:55am — No Comments

Traveling season

This is the time of year when we all travel more to visit with distant friends and family. It is also a chance to ponder some of life’s biggest mysteries, like:

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

And why do they lock gas stations bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will sneak in there and clean them?

Added by Austin S. Camacho on December 1, 2008 at 10:45pm — No Comments

Nice People

Before I forget, correction. I had the wrong figures on Friday. The quote calls for 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. The message is the same, just ignore the math. And thanks for noticing.

Anyway, my thought today is nice people. There just aren't enough of them in the world, and I often wish I were better at being one. On Saturday a man I'd never seen before gave me the nicest compliment I've had in months. He did it just to be nice, and it made me think what a great place the… Continue

Added by Peg Herring on December 1, 2008 at 10:08pm — 2 Comments

Weekly Blog - Monday 1st December

On the publicity front, an abridged version of the interview that I had with the Bookfiends Kingdom (www.bfkbooks.com) is now up on the publicity section of my website. Please visit www.stevenhague.com here to read it.

But on to more important matters – namely the promise I made to have finished the first draft of The Beholder by the time I write this blog. Good news folks – I’m a man of my word! It finally came in at a meaty 105,000 words, which is the longest first draft of the… Continue

Added by Steven Hague on December 1, 2008 at 7:18pm — No Comments

Read What Is being Said About Silent Scream

It was a time of innocence, a time of hippies, flower children and the Age of Aquarius. A time when young people felt free to roam about the countryside hitchhiking without fear. A time when law enforcement was trusted by the people they were sworn to protect and serve. That time was shattered by one of law enforcements own. His name was Gerard Schaefer. He was a former Wilton Manors, Florida Police Officer who lied his way into the office of the… Continue

Added by Yvonne Mason on December 1, 2008 at 9:06am — No Comments