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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!

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Facing a Writing Challenge

by N. M. Cedeño Many writers find motivation in challenging themselves in various ways. Some attempt to write a novel length manuscript...

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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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Writing “Reaching for the Moon” for Crimeucopia: Say What Now?

by N. M. Cedeño Although I may veer off into other areas, my reading pile usually comprises two main categories of books: mysteries and...

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Writing “Nice Girls Don’t” for Groovy Gumshoes

So what if I wasn’t born in the 1960s? I can do research! In 2020, I came across a call for submissions for mystery short stories to be...

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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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The Nightingale—A Novel 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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Creating Multiple Identities: the Research Rabbit Hole

by N.M. Cedeño Setting a story in the past requires the author to do research to make sure the details of the story are correct. For me,...

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“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,...