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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Blog
K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
- Jul 11, 2022
- 4 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 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
- Mar 7, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 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
- Jun 14, 2021
- 3 min
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, 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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K.P. Gresham
- May 10, 2021
- 7 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 6 min
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, 2021
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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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