K.P. Gresham
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...
top of page
K.P. Gresham
Professional Character Assassin
Blog
K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
Jun 13, 20223 min read
The 2022 Writers’ Police Academy
by K.P. Gresham I’ve just returned from the Writers’ Police Academy in Appleton, WI. The brainchild of retired cop, Lee Lofland, The...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
May 30, 20223 min read
Getting Texas Wrong in Fiction- Details Matter Y’all
Anyone who lives in Texas knows that Hollywood’s version of Texas and the actual Texas are very different places. Mostly, we Texans roll...
0 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
May 23, 20223 min read
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...
13 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
May 16, 20227 min read
Layers and Layers
by Helen Currie Foster – May 16, 2022 Cast your mind on the perfect croissant. A perfect croissant may have hundreds of layers of dough +...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Apr 26, 20226 min read
<strong>DON’T WALK UNDER A LADDER – BAD LUCK!</strong>
BY Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Lucky Ladybug. Lucky penny. Lucky horseshoe. Friday the 13th. Knock on wood. Hundreds of...
0 views0 comments
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...
1 view0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Apr 15, 20226 min read
<em>The Ardent Swarm</em> by Yamen Manai
Translated by Laura Vergnand –A Book Review by Renee Kimball What started as a post about the use of “bees” as literary metaphor became...
0 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Apr 4, 20226 min read
Music to Our Ears!
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...
1 view0 comments
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...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Mar 13, 20225 min read
SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SHERLOCK HOLMES, & DR. WATSON
by Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote 60 mystery stories featuring the man who quickly became the favorite...
1 view0 comments
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...
1 view0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Feb 28, 20227 min read
Charles Dickens and Ellen Nelly Ternan–Hidden Lives
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.” ~...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Feb 21, 20225 min read
What Do We…Know?
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...
1 view0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Feb 15, 20229 min read
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...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Feb 7, 20222 min read
The Lost Characters
By K.P. Gresham This week I lost a very good friend and an incredible mentor. Anna Castle wrote historical mysteries including two...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Feb 1, 20223 min read
<strong>ON THE SUBJECT OF PREQUELS</strong>
By Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Unlike sequels, which are straightforward continuations of possibilities that may happen after a...
1 view0 comments
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...
2 views0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Jan 24, 20221 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...
1 view0 comments
K.P. Gresham
Jan 18, 20226 min read
Book Review: The Secret Library: A Book-Lovers’ Journey Through Curiosities of History by Oliver Tea
by Renee Kimball Sometimes you stumble unawares into a book and then, in total surprise, you are rewarded. That was my experience when I...
1 view0 comments
bottom of page