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., 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
- May 23, 2022
- 3 min
Colleen McCullough and the Roman Empire
by Renee Kimball Reading is like swimming. Sometimes a novel is like a wading pool, low-level, light, humorous. Then there are others...
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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 2, 2022
- 3 min
Why I Go to Critique Group
by Kathy Waller I said to my critique partner this morning, The whole project is stinky it stinks it’s fatally flawed just nothing no...
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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
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Sisters in Crime, Thank You!!!
By K.P. Gresham First off, the best job I ever had (short of writing mysteries) was teaching. And yes, I taught Middle Schoolers, which...
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K.P. Gresham
- Dec 6, 2021
- 5 min
Historical Fiction–Literary Time Travel
Whatever may be said about Through A Glass Darkly, it was and remains a hugely popular historical fiction novel. I recently re-read...
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K.P. Gresham
- Oct 18, 2021
- 3 min
Do You Enjoy Speculative Fiction?
By N.M. Cedeño Do you enjoy speculative fiction? Do you know what speculative fiction is? The dictionary defines speculative fiction as...
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 23, 2021
- 4 min
Dreaming in Santa Fe
by Helen Currie Foster Driving into New Mexico with my husband (favorite long-time travel companion) I peer anxiously out the car...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jul 19, 2021
- 4 min
Judging a Book by Its Cover
By K.P. Gresham “Good cover design is not only about beauty… it’s a visual sales pitch. It’s your first contact with a potential reader....
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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
- Jun 21, 2021
- 5 min
THE PLOT THICKENS! Or, Your Suspicions May Be True
by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 7, 2021
- 3 min
Tipper: My Manager Extraordinaire
by K .P. Gresham I suspect most of us have our secrets about how we survived the Pandemic of ’20-’21. Video games, binge-watching movies,...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 31, 2021
- 2 min
“Quaint and Curious”
by Kathy Waller Today is Memorial Day, the last Monday in May, when we remember the men and women of the military to whom we cannot say,...
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