K.P. Gresham
Terry Shames’ Samuel Craddock Mysteries: A “Genre-Bending” Series and One True Sen
Texas mystery author Terry Shames’ latest book, Murder at the Jubilee Rally, has been reviewed on ABC News. To use a folksy phrase—Folks,...
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K.P. Gresham
Professional Character Assassin
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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
- Aug 18, 2022
- 6 min
<strong>Book Review:</strong><strong><em> David and Goliath – Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art
by Renee Kimball “Giants are not as powerful as they seem and sometimes the shepherd has a sling in his pocket.” — Malcom Gladwell David...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 8, 2022
- 8 min
The Flavor of the Place
by Helen Currie Foster August 8, 2022 Our family’s favorite mystery quote (bolded below) appears in Strong Poison, by Dorothy Sayers,...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 20, 2022
- 3 min
Review: Nancy Peacock’s A Broom of One’s Own (A Public Service Repost)
by Kathy Waller I wrote the following for my personal blog to answer a “challenge.” I intended to post it at the end of September...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 15, 2022
- 6 min
<em>The Ardent Swarm</em> by Yamen Manai
Translated by Laura Vergnand –A Book Review by Renee Kimball What started as a post about the use of “bees” as literary metaphor became...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 4, 2022
- 6 min
Music to Our Ears!
by Helen Currie Foster On April 2 I drove with my writing compadre D.L.S. Evatt (aka Dixie) to Houston to sign books at Murder by the...
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K.P. Gresham
- Feb 28, 2022
- 7 min
Charles Dickens and Ellen Nelly Ternan–Hidden Lives
by Renee Kimball “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” ~...
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K.P. Gresham
- Feb 15, 2022
- 9 min
Letters: A Velocity of Being
by Kathy Waller The definition of reading readiness is the point at which a child goes from not reading, to reading. ~ Sight and Sound...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jan 18, 2022
- 6 min
Book Review: The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History by Oliver Tea
by Renee Kimball Sometimes you stumble unawares into a book and then, in total surprise, you are rewarded. That was my experience when I...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jan 4, 2022
- 6 min
Book Review: Benjamin Capps’ The Heirs of Franklin Woodstock
by Kathy Waller George Woodstock received the peculiar phone call on his sixty-sixth birthday. . . He let the phone ring twice, then...
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K.P. Gresham
- Nov 1, 2021
- 4 min
Book Review: FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King
“From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face. Sometimes it shouts in...
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K.P. Gresham
- Sep 21, 2021
- 5 min
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction – Book Review
By Renee Kimball Biblioholism *. . .book, of books; the habitual longing to purchase, read, store, admire, and consume books in excess. ...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 9, 2021
- 3 min
<strong><em>The Nightingale—A Novel</em></strong><strong> by Kristin Hannah—And . . . Admitting When
The Nightingale—A Novel by Kristin Hannah is a weighty 564 pages. The cover has shades of blue and grey with the embossed golden image...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 28, 2021
- 5 min
Weaving Complexity into Story
by Renee Kimball It has been a year of extremes—Covid, freezing weather, and higher than average temperatures forecast for the summer...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jan 11, 2021
- 5 min
Ray Bradbury on Writing and Life
by Renee Kimball “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” ― Ray Bradbury “. . . And what, you ask, does writing teach...
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K.P. Gresham
- Dec 21, 2020
- 2 min
J.D. Robb’s Holiday in Death
by K.P. Gresham My Go-To Seasonal Escape! When the holidays come around, I can’t help it. Sometimes I get so stressed I just wanna kill...
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K.P. Gresham
- Sep 22, 2020
- 3 min
Book Review: Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do; Edited by Mere
by Renee Kimball Meredith Maran decided to write a book about writing to show her “gratitude to writers everywhere.” To do that,...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 24, 2020
- 3 min
Agatha Christie Wrote Paranormal Stories?
Do you enjoy books that make a chill dance down your spine by invoking the otherworldly or the supernatural? As a teen, I read all of my...
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K.P. Gresham
- Feb 4, 2020
- 3 min
Tell Me a Story! P.D. James, Talking about Detective Fiction, 2009
by Helen Currie Foster “Tell me a story,” begs the child. “Tell me a story about before you met me,” the lover entreats the loved one....
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K.P. Gresham
- Dec 23, 2019
- 3 min
John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field (October 17, 2019)
by Helen Currie Foster John li Carre, by Krimidoedel, CC BY 3.0, via Wikipedia Okay, you already know I’m hooked on le Carré. Never did I...
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