K.P. Gresham
What Makes a Good Story, Or, Is Joseph Campbell Bossing Me Around?
by K.P. Gresham Writers (or at least me) despise (rightly so) the idea of formulaic writing. I am creative! I have my own ideas! Ain’t...
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K.P. Gresham
Professional Character Assassin
Blog
K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
- Nov 19, 2019
- 6 min
BOOK REVIEW: FULL DARK, NO STARS by Stephen King
Written by Renee Kimball “From the start . . . I felt that the best fiction was both propulsive and assaultive. It gets in your face....
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K.P. Gresham
- Nov 11, 2019
- 4 min
Characters We’re Drawn To
By Helen Currie Foster Last week Big D hosted the Bouchercon book conference. Two sessions made me wonder why we’re drawn to particular...
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K.P. Gresham
- Oct 21, 2019
- 2 min
New Mystery Series: Bullet Books Speed Reads at Texas Book Festival
No matter what they tell you, Texas isn’t all cowboys and cactus and bullets and brush. Texas Book Festival opens on the grounds of the...
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K.P. Gresham
- Sep 30, 2019
- 3 min
Further Thoughts on Smell in Literature, or The Dog as Watson
by Helen Currie Foster An author can get great mileage by giving the point of view to a Watson sort of character. The Watson can be...
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K.P. Gresham
- Sep 16, 2019
- 3 min
Book Clubs for Writers: A Doggone Good Time!
By K.P. Gresham I existed in a happy, but small little world of people who get together to figure out how best to kill other people....
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K.P. Gresham
- Aug 19, 2019
- 4 min
THE SCENT OF A WOMAN…THEATER…SEA
by Helen Currie Foster Even just thinking of certain smells can yank me straight back to childhood. Oil paints? Mama working on her...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jul 8, 2019
- 5 min
How Did She Think of That? And How Did Adamsberg Figure It Out?: Thoughts on Fred Vargas and her Pol
by Helen Currie Foster Fred Vargas by Marcello Casal/ABr, licensed under CC BY-3.0 BR. Via Wikipedia Her sheer imagination, her complex...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 24, 2019
- 3 min
Well-Rounded Thrillers? Naw…Really?
By K.P. Gresham Sara Paretsky created quite a stir in the mystery writing community with her recent letter to the editor. (New York Times...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 17, 2019
- 4 min
One Pebble in a Shoe Can Change the Universe
It happened again. An author killed off a character I love. I hate that. I hate the author. I continue to like the book, but the author I...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 10, 2019
- 3 min
Building Character Profiles While Fighting the Battle of the Bulge
by Fran Paino The Battle of the Bulge, (December 16, 1944–January 16, 1945), was the last significant German effort to split the allies...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 3, 2019
- 3 min
A Book Review: The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
It is also a mournful story, and not one that you can simply close the cover and walk away from, it follows you. It seeks answers to...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 27, 2019
- 4 min
Watching the Watcher: Navigating Venice with Commissario Brunetti
My heart speeds up on news that Donna Leon’s got a new police procedural, because I love her Guido Brunetti. Not in a romantic way, of...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 13, 2019
- 2 min
Well Said
by K.P. Gresham “After all, tomorrow is another day.” Recognize that book quote? They’re the five favorite words of Scarlet O’Hara in...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 6, 2019
- 3 min
Author, Author: Josephine Tey–Occupying the Hinterland
by M. K. Waller The other Ashby children—Simon’s sisters, nineteen-year-old Eleanor and nine-year-old twins Jane and Ruth—look forward to...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 29, 2019
- 3 min
Book Review: Phyllis Whitney’s The Ebony Swan
by Francine Paino I’d forgotten how much I’d enjoyed her stories, years ago, and I hadn’t read all of her works, which added up to an...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 15, 2019
- 6 min
Confessions of a Closet Re-Reader: Le Carré and his Characters
by Helen Currie Foster In her 2001 collection Rereadings, Anne Fadiman challenged writers to revisit books they read before they were...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 1, 2019
- 2 min
Three Days at Wrigley Field
by K. P. Gresham Hey! Hey! Holy Mackerel! The Cubs are on the field! Baseball’s back, and I’m celebrating with a return to one of my...
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K.P. Gresham
- Mar 11, 2019
- 4 min
It Begins with One Step – A Book Review of WILD by Cheryl Strayed
by Renee Kimball “Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves…” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the...
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K.P. Gresham
- Mar 5, 2019
- 4 min
Sometimes You Need A Break—
Helen Currie Foster Posted by Helen Currie Foster —from news, winter, deadlines, calamities. Two books did the trick for me this...
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