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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!


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...

K.P. Gresham
Jul 13, 20214 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Jul 6, 20214 min read
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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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Jun 28, 20215 min read
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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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Jun 21, 20215 min read
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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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Jun 14, 20213 min read
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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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Jun 7, 20213 min read
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“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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May 31, 20212 min read
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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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May 24, 20215 min read
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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)...

K.P. Gresham
May 16, 20218 min read
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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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May 10, 20217 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
May 3, 20213 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Apr 19, 20216 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Apr 12, 20214 min read
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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)...

K.P. Gresham
Apr 7, 20216 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Mar 29, 20216 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Mar 22, 20213 min read
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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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Mar 8, 20213 min read
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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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Mar 2, 20212 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Feb 25, 20213 min read
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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...

K.P. Gresham
Feb 8, 20213 min read
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