March 2007 Blog Posts (300)

Goldsborough's Review of IMPULSE

IMPULSE by Frederick Ramsay. Poisoned Pen Press 2006, 245 pages, $14.95

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…

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Added by Robert Goldsborough on March 26, 2007 at 8:16am — No Comments

True Stories

Met up with Charles Ardai at the Black Orchid a couple of nights ago. He was kind enough to blurb my forthcoming book, THE CONCRETE MAZE, and we got to talking. I let him know that one of the incidents - a body found in several pieces scattered throughout NYC was based on a true story. Now, if you've read the book, please don't give away what went on, but let me give the base story here.

When I was young, my family moved to Puerto Rico for a short while. When we came back, we had to… Continue

Added by Steven Torres on March 26, 2007 at 7:27am — No Comments

I'm spreading the Crimespace word

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

Added by Morgan Mandel on March 26, 2007 at 5:58am — No Comments

The real crime scene investigation

Yesterday I had a chance to spend three hours with real crime scene and other law enforcement professionals, along with 75 mostly mystery writers and including some other Crimespacers, in an event sponsored by MWA-New York, at Katherine Gibbs of all places, where they've branched out from training pink collar workers to offering an associates degree in criminal justice. I use an amateur sleuth precisely so I don't need to master the forensic details, but we all need some artistic… Continue

Added by Elizabeth Zelvin on March 26, 2007 at 5:21am — No Comments

It's just not Cricket ... is it?!?

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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Added by Anne Brooke on March 26, 2007 at 4:54am — No Comments

To Blog or Not To

I can't say I have ever blogged before, and that might be shocking considering the fact that I stay on the cutting edge of technology and the Internet and all that. Well, maybe that means it is shocking for me, but for all of you who wouldn't know me from a Thomas' English Muffin, no shock I presume.

Anyway, I am going through a great/tough period in my life, the time when my book is about to hit the shelves. I've been through this before, but I bumbled it a bit, not…

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Added by John Misak on March 26, 2007 at 2:58am — No Comments

Why I Never Changed My Name

(Simulcast at secretdead.blogspot.com.)

"Duane Swierczynski" is quite a handle, isn't it? But hey, don't blame me. I've tried to change it before. Throughout my senior year of high

school I submitted short horror stories to whatever markets I could

find, including markets way out of my grubby little immature reach.

Markets like… Continue

Added by Duane Swierczynski on March 26, 2007 at 12:37am — 9 Comments

Inspiration

Inspiration is a sometime thing. Sometimes you've got it, sometimes you haven't. I've always thought, maybe wrongly, that the unconscious works for you. If you go around with your stories and your characters in your head, then you're bound to make progress. Maybe that's just the way I work, probably to relieve myself of guilt. I work every day, steadily, but I don't just write words, no matter what. Sometimes it's a paragraph, sometimes two or three pages. I don't think "writers' block" exists,… Continue

Added by mary christian on March 25, 2007 at 4:17pm — No Comments

Blogging

Here a blog, there a blog, everywhere a blog blog (that's not plagiarism, right?). I'm blog challenged. I was invited to participate in a team blog called There's a Dead Guy in the Living Room with some highly esteemed colleagues. I was too honored to say no and it's only once a week, right?

But now here's Crimespace and another one? I've resisted the empty place on my page as long as I dare. And I'm not sure how to crosspost things yet, so bear with me. My other blog is found at…

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Added by PJ Nunn on March 25, 2007 at 10:51am — No Comments

I'm back from hols. But where's ...

... my luggage?? Having an extended break in Madeira, that's where ... Bugger. Hope to God it makes it back to the mother country on Monday, when BA promise it will. Harrumph indeed.

That said, Madeira was great! Highlights (without the aid of my journal, still in Funchal ...) were:

the mountains
the trees on the mountains
the hotel
the sea view - fantastic!
seeing a grapefruit…

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Added by Anne Brooke on March 25, 2007 at 8:38am — No Comments

Hello all,

This is my first post here. And I've been thinking, since my "real" blog really isn't about my crime fiction, perhaps I will use crimespace for that. Seems fitting, don't you thinl?

Added by D.T. Kelly on March 25, 2007 at 8:12am — No Comments

Thanks For the Invites!

I am currently in computer hell right now.

It appears I need to get my MSN browser fully supported, not a term I relish, from my aged and gravity plagued point of view, but one that is necessary, I'm afraid. Then I can sit back and bask in the sunshine of all these friendships that everyone is kindly offering.

So, hope you don't think I'm rude. I like you, I really, really like you. And I want to grab my basketball and join you on the court, but there are things that it… Continue

Added by DADavenport on March 25, 2007 at 7:57am — 2 Comments

Zowie

This bar is getting mighty cozy, isn't it? I step away for a minute to top off the O'Ban and come back to a slew of new revelers. It know it's a tad early for a second shot, so, I'll just sit back and enjoy the show.

Having so many "friends" is quite the ego-rush, isn't it?

Added by Pari Noskin Taichert on March 25, 2007 at 2:24am — No Comments

Welcome to my new Blog

Hi Everyone,

I'm delighted to be here by my open window, listening to the birds singing and watching the snow melt in upstate New York as I create my first-ever blog. It's something I've been meaning to do for ages now, but this site, which I just joined yesterday, made it possible.

I'll be telling you more about my mystery, Mood Swing: The Bipolar Murders, in the near future. Until I get around to it, please click on…

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Added by Julie Lomoe on March 25, 2007 at 1:55am — No Comments

Who's going to L.A. Festival of Books?

I'll be at the LA Festival of Books, signing at the Mystery Bookstore booth (Saturday at 4:00) with Megan Abbott, Theresa Schwegel, and James Ellroy. Anybody else going?

Added by Jason Starr on March 25, 2007 at 1:45am — 3 Comments

Murder Off the Books by Evelyn David

Murder Off the Books

by Evelyn David

Echelon Press Publishing

ISBN 13: 978-1-59080-522-0 $12.99…

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Added by QualityBookReviews on March 25, 2007 at 1:30am — No Comments

Happy to join here!

I hope to get to know this group and learn more about the genre- hear about new authors - and movies!

Added by A Brewster Smythe on March 25, 2007 at 12:28am — No Comments

Mystery, Sci-Fi and Drama Take The Stage At April Author Event in Chicago

Posted: 2007-03-24 04:57

220 Communications and Hidden Pearl Cafe Present “Sessions, Mystery and Mayhem!" Saturday April 7th, from 1PM -…

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Added by Sylvia Hubbard on March 24, 2007 at 10:16pm — No Comments

Trying to work on WIP and do promotion

Being an author is difficult. Yes, I do have a book in progress, my latest Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery. Besides that I'm writing a Blog on this great new Crime Space--part of promotion. I spent some time today working on the Public Safety Writers Association's (formerly Police Writers Association) conference which will be this April. Anyone interested in attending, it's April 19 through 22 in Las Vegas. (Go to http://www.policewriter.com for more…

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Added by Marilyn Meredith on March 24, 2007 at 3:33pm — No Comments

Crime and Punishment

The punishment does not always fit the crime. It depends on too many factors. She was dead there on the hotel room floor.. dead, dead as dead can be. He stood there looking at what he had done. He thought about the punishment for his crime. Life in prison? Dealth? eternaity in hell? He wondered if he would pay for this one day. Maybe so, but not today. No one had heard her die. IT was a silent dealth strangulation he overpowered her put one hand over her mouth the other around her thin neck,…

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Added by LeAnnDraD on March 24, 2007 at 2:35pm — No Comments