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...

by K.P. Gresham I’ve just returned from the Writers’ Police Academy in Appleton, WI. The brainchild of retired cop, Lee Lofland, The...

Anyone who lives in Texas knows that Hollywood’s version of Texas and the actual Texas are very different places. Mostly, we Texans roll...

by Renee Kimball Reading is like swimming.  Sometimes a novel is like a wading pool, low-level, light, humorous.  Then there are others...

by Helen Currie Foster – May 16, 2022 Cast your mind on the perfect croissant. A perfect croissant may have hundreds of layers of dough +...

BY Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Lucky Ladybug. Lucky penny. Lucky horseshoe. Friday the 13th. Knock on wood. Hundreds of...

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...

Translated by Laura Vergnand –A Book Review by Renee Kimball What started as a post about the use of “bees” as literary metaphor became...

by Helen Currie Foster On April 2 I drove with my writing compadre D.L.S. Evatt (aka Dixie) to Houston to sign books at Murder by the...

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...

by Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the man who quickly became the favorite...

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

by Renee Kimball “I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.” ~...

By Helen Currie Foster I knew so much in college. So much! I was after a solid liberal arts education. I knew biology—I’d dissected the...

by Kathy Waller The definition of reading readiness is the point at which a child goes from not reading, to reading. ~ Sight and Sound...

By K.P. Gresham This week I lost a very good friend and an incredible mentor. Anna Castle wrote historical mysteries including two...

By Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Unlike sequels, which are straightforward continuations of possibilities that may happen after a...

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...

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...

by Renee Kimball Sometimes you stumble unawares into a book and then, in total surprise, you are rewarded.  That was my experience when I...