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Everything I Know About Novels I Learned From Screenwriting 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Jeff Cohen Before I wrote anything pretending to be a novel, I spent 20 years writing screenplays. A lot of screenplays. Way too many screenplays. I wrote comedies about a scientist splitting hersel...
Broadchurch on BBC America 25 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Jessy Randall Are you watching it? What do you think about it? What is up with that skateboard in the closet, huh? It's no Top of the Lake, of course, but I am enjoying the new BBC America mystery s...
It's a Great Book. What now? 25 Aug 2013 | 08:13 am
Marilyn Thiele Since we really don’t have weekly themes on this blog, all I can do is agree with Lynne, that there must be some psychic waves floating among us. So here are a few words on that book t...
All About You 23 Aug 2013 | 08:30 pm
by Erin Mitchell A few months back I accidentally agreed to help out with the social media for Bouchercon 2013. Mostly, this has meant managing the Facebook page...digging up answers to questions, sh...
Six months in a drawer 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Lynne Patrick First the bad news. The developers won the final battle. (Remember the houses they wanted to build in the beautiful field opposite my house?) They appealed against the decision to refus...
So You Wrote A Book: Take 2, and now without typos and spelling mistakes! 21 Aug 2013 | 07:39 am
Josh Getzler OK, so yesterday Jeff Cohen wrote a terrific post here--so terrific, in fact, that I thought it deserved to be up for nearly two whole days! Actually it had to do with the busyness of...
I Blame The Agent 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Jeff Cohen An informal poll of aspiring and midlist crime fiction writers (and by "informal," I mean that I've completely made this up) shows that when a manuscript fails to find the right publisher ...
Marriage Mysteries 18 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Jessy Randall I've been married for thirteen years, and I've known my husband for over twenty years, so you would think that in terms of our getting to know each other there would be no mysteries lef...
Is This the Party to Whom I Am Speaking? 18 Aug 2013 | 08:31 am
Marilyn Thiele Back in the olden days, shortly after the middle of the last century, when I was in elementary school, we were taught “telephone etiquette.” The rules are mostly meaningless today, as ...
The woman with three hats 14 Aug 2013 | 08:03 pm
Lynne Patrick A lot of years ago, and stop me if I’ve told this story before, a friend sent me a postcard of a painting which depicted a woman wearing three hats. I was that woman, said the accompany...
