Angela Zeman's Blog (6)

New news! My kind and excellent friends from Criminal Brief, the short story webblog, have invited me to serve on their short story panel on Friday in Baltimore! Linda Landrigan, editor-in-chief of Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine will also sit in, plus illustrious others. Do not miss this panel!! Why so much passion for short story? Because every word works hard to please the reader, no fluff, no dead-zones. Still not convinced? Movies are cinematic short stories. Ask anyone who ever had t… Continue

Check out HTTP://CriminalBrief.com for discussions of SHORT MYSTERY FICTION. Lots to talk about for both readers and writers, with daily columns (including mine, Saturdays.) A Continue

I invite anyone to click on this link (assuming I can get it on here) to view a podcast of the documentary "SICKO" by Michael Moore. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid936760312/bclid1119304175/bctid1114190943. Yes, it's huge, but hopefully it works.

OK, I confess. I thought the link was to something else, and ended up with Michael Moore. Still, as a human being who some

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Just finished Reginald Hill's DEATH'S JEST BOOK, published in the UK in 2002, in the US 2003. My second reading of this huge (in every aspect) novel. Fascinating, about a serial killer captured and in the process, killed, making a tidy ending for the case...except this book wasn't about that. This book dealt with the aftermath of that case. In Dalziel's (Hill's protagonist's) view, his second in command (Pascoe) is only picking at the scab of a closed case making for unecessary aggravation to

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I'm disgusted to hear muttering in the writer underground that Stephen King, as a 'horror' writer, should never have been granted Mystery Writers of America's highest title of honor--Grandmaster.

IMHO, the worst horror would be to overlook Stephen King.

Sure he writes horror. Others write romance, mainstream, PI pulps, spy, police procedurals, suspense, historicals, thrillers, cozies, even that oddity called 'woo woo.' And all contain some kind of mystery that needs solving

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Don’t work too hard! It’s summer, time to feel guilt if you work too hard, because you’re not out ‘playing;’ and time to feel guilt if you’re hardly working, which is unprofess

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