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Everyone agrees that nobody knows what makes a bestseller. Books that were BLOCKBUSTERS often leave me asking, "On whose block?"
Those who know me can guess that I do not care about vampire boyfriends, Glenn Beck's rantings, or the people you meet in heaven. But even in my favorite genre, mystery, I'm puzzled by what others like that I find insipid or overdone or unbelievable. It may be Grouchy Reader Syndrome, which…
Added by Peg Herring on August 4, 2010 at 9:40pm — 2 Comments
Here is the list of ebooks featured on mysterebooks.blogspot.com this week:
Monday
Title: L.A. HEAT
Author: P.A. Brown
Genre: Police Procedural w gay characters
Setting: Los Angeles
Tuesday
Title: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY
Author: Stacy Juba
Genre: Mystery/Romantic Suspense
Setting: New England
Wednesday
Title: JOURNEY TO DIE FOR
Author: Radine Trees Nehring
Genre: Mystery/senior citizen…
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Today marks the beginning of a new webblog for owners of e-readers. Mysterebooks.blogspot.com begins listing mysteries for e-books with author-submitted information and reviews. This week's listings are below. Please stop by and read, comment, and enjoy!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Title THE FOUR LAST THINGS (Simeon Grist #1)
Author Timothy Hallinan
Genre/Sub-genre: LA private eye novel
Tuesday:
Title TO CATCH A COP
AUTHOR Elle Druskin
GENRE…
Added by Peg Herring on July 26, 2010 at 9:52pm — 2 Comments
Today marks the beginning of a new webblog for owners of e-readers. Mysterebooks.blogspot.com begins listing mysteries for e-books with author-submitted information and reviews. This week's listings are below. Please stop by and read, comment, and enjoy!
Monday, July 26, 2010
Title THE FOUR LAST THINGS (Simeon Grist #1)
Author Timothy Hallinan
Genre/Sub-genre: LA private eye novel
Tuesday:
Title TO CATCH A COP
AUTHOR Elle Druskin
GENRE…
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Added by Peg Herring on July 19, 2010 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments
Oh, stop thinking that way!
My thought for the day comes from the night. Once upon a time, my husband wanted the bedroom cool (make that cold) and I wanted it warm. In our maturity, we have switched. These days I can't sleep unless the AC is on, and he suffers from an arthritic shoulder, so the blast of cool air keeps him awake with an ache.
Studies show that men and women make subtle shifts as they age that may reverse behaviors and attitudes from their…
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Added by Peg Herring on July 15, 2010 at 9:23pm — 1 Comment
It's time to choose the next book. My second Simon & Elizabeth (POISON, YOUR GRACE) and my paranormal, THE DEAD DETECTIVE AGENCY, are both in the editing process, so there is nothing I can do about them until I get the editors' suggestions. My newest endeavor, which I titled DEAD INSIDE, is awaiting word from an agent or two. So what do I want to do next?
The perspiration part: write the third of the historical series. I have it outlined on my handy-dandy little tape recorder, and…
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If fiction were fact, America would be flooded with maniacal, smart-but-evil murderers who lead the police on macabre chases that follow some twisted idea of order evident only to them, at least until some smart cop/P.I./amateur figures it out.
Reality is, of course, that most murderers are stupid, illogical, impulsive, and easily caught. A cop at a con I attended attested to this, citing the example of two drugged-out men in a shelter who got into a fight over a cheap pendant. One of…
ContinueAdded by Peg Herring on July 9, 2010 at 10:08pm — 4 Comments
A frustrating part of being a reader is that you're never, ever, done. People are always mentioning books that sound interesting, recommending authors whose work I might enjoy, or even handing me books with a "You've got to read this."
But there isn't time!
Although I never made it to a lot of the old classics, there are new classics, prize-winners, best-sellers, and unread works of authors I like lined up on my mental TBR list, waiting for my attention. I used to read…
ContinueAdded by Peg Herring on July 6, 2010 at 9:54pm — 2 Comments
One of the scary things about being published is that one might (probably will) get something wrong. There it is, for all the world to see, and it can't be fixed.
Something equally vexing to me is that people THINK you've got something wrong. One can't hunt them all down and argue the point, but--well, this one would like to.
It has been pointed out to me, twice now, that I used the word "dollar" in HER HIGHNESS' FIRST MURDER. Yeah, I did, in the idiom "squeeze the last dollar"…
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We've heard it all. We see where you're going, we know where you have to end up. We know how you think, and we know a clue when we see one. In short, we're pretty darned hard to fool.
I started reading mysteries at about fourteen. I've been from Donald to Dexter, from Paretsky to Poirot, and honestly, I'm not nearly as savvy as a lot of my friends in the mystery community. But familiarity with the genre means that when you, the author, spend a little too much time commenting on the…
ContinueAdded by Peg Herring on June 29, 2010 at 9:57pm — 3 Comments
I know I pick on them, but jeez! I used to be a speech teacher, and I wonder what happened to all those speech classes that one assumes newspeople must take.
A few hints:
Read/scan your copy ahead of time. If you don't know how to pronounce something, ask somebody and then write it phonetically. Giving the audience multiple choice versions is not cool.
Keep your lame attempts at humor to yourself. You're only revealing what we already suspected: that weathermen are…
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Surprisingly, sometimes you open a book and find a friend. It's not anyone you've met before, but right away you recognize the connection. You like the guy. You want to know more about him. You wouldn't mind having a cup of coffee and just listening to him talk.
I just met Lawrence Block's Bernie Rhodenbarr, (yeah, I know. I'm decades behind the rest of the world) and that is what happened. He's a crook, but I like him. I'm on page 16, so I've got lots of pages left to learn…
ContinueAdded by Peg Herring on June 23, 2010 at 10:20pm — 1 Comment
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