K.P. Gresham
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...
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K.P., along with her fellow ink-stained wretches, put out a weekly blog. Enjoy!
K.P. Gresham
- Jul 6, 2021
- 4 min
MEOW, WOOF AND TWEET
ANIMAL SIDEKICKS AND PETS IN FICTION By Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte “Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 28, 2021
- 5 min
Weaving Complexity into Story
by Renee Kimball It has been a year of extremes—Covid, freezing weather, and higher than average temperatures forecast for the summer...
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K.P. Gresham
- Jun 21, 2021
- 5 min
THE PLOT THICKENS! Or, Your Suspicions May Be True
by Helen Currie Foster Okay—Mom Genes is such a great title, it couldn’t not be used. But Abigail Tucker’s new book of that title doesn’t...
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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 24, 2021
- 5 min
SIDEKICKS
Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Almost every great detective has a great sidekick. Leading the pack, of course, is Sir Arthur Conan...
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K.P. Gresham
- May 16, 2021
- 8 min
Book Hangover
Tales of Matthew Shardlake, C. J. Sansom and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall —by Renee Kimball BOOK HANGOVER Book hang-o-ver (hang-oh-ver)...
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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
- May 3, 2021
- 3 min
Submitting Short Stories: Part 2
By N. M. Cedeño Previously, I wrote a post covering some of the basic rules for submitting short stories to anthologies, magazines, and...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 19, 2021
- 6 min
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...
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K.P. Gresham
- Apr 12, 2021
- 4 min
Left Brain/Right Brain- How Novelists Use Both
By Francine Paino AKA F. Della Notte Do we have one brain or two? Technically, we know we only have one, but then it’s divided right down...
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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
- Mar 8, 2021
- 3 min
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...
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K.P. Gresham
- Mar 2, 2021
- 2 min
Phyllis Whitney’s The Ebony Swan
by Francine Paino Still a favorite and should never be forgotten. I was inspired to read The Ebony Swan, after reading Kay Hudson’s,...
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K.P. Gresham
- Feb 25, 2021
- 3 min
Revisiting Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
by Renee Kimball “Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn unto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of...
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K.P. Gresham
- Feb 8, 2021
- 3 min
What’s in a Character Name?
Authors, how do you name your characters? Name Cloud by Wordcloud The average person only has to come up with names when they are naming...
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