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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!


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,...

K.P. Gresham
Oct 26, 20224 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Feb 15, 20229 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Jan 4, 20226 min read
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A Little Hitchcock, Two Stories, Plus Spoilers
by Kathy Waller The summer I was six, my cousin of the same age was visiting our spinster great-aunt and bachelor uncle who lived up the...

K.P. Gresham
Nov 7, 20214 min read
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And Over. And Over. And . . .
by Kathy Waller I’m thinking it over. Jack Benny A curse on this week’s post. I banged out nearly 2,000 words that should have been...

K.P. Gresham
Jul 13, 20214 min read
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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,...

K.P. Gresham
May 31, 20212 min read
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Naming Characters: Steve Dauchy MacCaskill
I’m working on a mystery novel—I’ve been working on it for years, but now I’m working on it—and am faced with dilemmas too numerous to...

K.P. Gresham
Apr 19, 20216 min read
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William Bit Me. Again. And Jenny Kissed Leigh Hunt.
by Kathy Waller I was preparing an update to my January 25 post about resolving to read all forty-seven of Anthony Trollope’s novels in...

K.P. Gresham
Mar 8, 20213 min read
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I Am Not a Moral Pauper
by Kathy Waller “Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.” ~ Mark Twain (or...

K.P. Gresham
Jan 25, 20216 min read
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Lost and Found
by Kathy Waller “Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them....

K.P. Gresham
Dec 15, 20207 min read
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More Than There Was Before
* The first few years I studied Romeo and Juliet with my high school freshmen, when I was in my The way Juliet’s father tells her to...

K.P. Gresham
Sep 7, 20202 min read
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A Post That Wasn’t Supposed to Be Posted
I was writing a book review when Lark Rise to Candleford, a television series I had running in the background as a helpful distraction,...

K.P. Gresham
Aug 10, 20203 min read
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A Mind Unhinged
by Kathy Waller So you start writing your post about the incomparable Josephine Tey’s mystery novels two weeks before it’s due but...

K.P. Gresham
Dec 3, 20195 min read
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