K.P. Gresham
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
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
Jul 11, 20224 min read
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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K.P. Gresham
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Submitting Short Stories: It’s Like Baseball
By N. M. Cedeño Many of the stories I write aren’t accepted the first time I submit them for publication. The majority have to be...
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K.P. Gresham
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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
Mar 7, 20223 min read
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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K.P. Gresham
Jan 24, 20223 min read
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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K.P. Gresham
Jan 4, 20226 min read
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, 20212 min read
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
Jun 14, 20213 min read
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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K.P. Gresham
Jun 7, 20213 min read
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, 20212 min read
“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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K.P. Gresham
May 10, 20217 min read
The Ones That Stick With You
by Helen Currie Foster We read to learn, we read to be entertained. We begged at age three, “Tell me a story.” The stories began, “Once...
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K.P. Gresham
Apr 7, 20216 min read
Pick Your Poison–An Almost Perfect Crime
“All things are poison and nothing is without poison; only the dose makes a thing not a poison.” Paracelsus, Swiss physician (1493 –1541)...
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K.P. Gresham
Mar 29, 20216 min read
What’s That Smell?
by Helen Currie Foster In the back of the closet I recently unearthed my mother’s old Caswell Massey “Gardenia” bubble bath. The...
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K.P. Gresham
Mar 22, 20213 min read
Blending Sub-genres
By N. M. Cedeño Do you write in more than one genre? Do you blend genres or sub-genres? I do. Some sub-genres seem to lend themselves...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 23, 20206 min read
Where Are We? Trowels Up!
Try to imagine a mystery without its setting. What? You’re having trouble? Open a mystery and be denied the setting. What? You’re getting...
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K.P. Gresham
Nov 9, 20202 min read
Writing Humor in Mysteries
by K.P. Gresham I recently appeared on a “Writing Humor in Mysteries” panel at the Pflugerville, Texas, Library along with fellow authors...
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K.P. Gresham
Oct 12, 20204 min read
PLAIN OR FANCY?
Mystery readers are tetchy. We want an interesting plot with a fair shot at noting each clue—but don’t want to guess whodunnit too soon....
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K.P. Gresham
Aug 31, 20204 min read
Barbeculinary Thoughts
I know, you’re asking yourself what barbecue has to do with mystery writing, my other beloved topic. Barbecuing, like writing (see K.P....
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