Weekend Update: April 25-26, 2026

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Matt Cost (Monday), Rob Kelley (Tuesday), and Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Friday).

In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers:

Matt Cost is gearing up for the release of his new thriller, EveryThing vs. Max Creed, on May 21st, and is thus preparing his promotional schedule.

Whew! Matt is amazing.

Here’s a photo from my event last weekend in Limerick. Such a great time!

Our bundle of books winner for March is Jeanne Lawson. And there’s still time to leave a comment this week to be in the running for the April bundle. Who doesn’t need more books?

An invitation to readers of this blog: Do you have news relating to Maine, Crime, or Writing? We’d love to hear from you. Just comment below to share.

And a reminder: If your library, school, or organization is looking for a speaker, we are often available to talk about the writing process, research, where we get our ideas, and other mysteries of the business, along with the very popular “Making a Mystery” with audience participation, and “Casting Call: How We Staff Our Mysteries.” We also do programs on Zoom. Contact Kate Flora

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Tired of Scam Emails?

Vaughn C. Hardacker

Of late I have been bombarded with scam emails! I even carried on a conversation with Nora Roberts! (Don’t laugh, that’s what it sounded like. I decided to try something. I replied at 1:00 a.m. and got a reply back at 1:59 a.m.–does anyone out there truly believe that Nora is monitoring, let alone answering, emails at 2 in the morning!) The scammer finally admitted he wasn’t Nora, apologized, and then made a sales pitch about what he (maybe she) could do for me. I replied: I don’t think so…you lied to me about who you are, why should I believe anything else you say?

This is a major issue in our industry. Therefore, I have spoken with Melissa Current Gerety of MCG Creative, and she agreed to do a guest blog on the issue. So, Heeeeerrrrres Melissa!

Hello, Wonderful Author: How to Tell What’s Legit in Your Inbox

When I started my career in marketing and publicity the industry was very different. There was no internet–I am old enough to remember life before websites and social media. In fact, back then, we sent media releases and media kits via the USPS and the labels were typed on a typewriter. One. At. A. Time. That was the biggest time suck–all that typing and hoping you didn’t make a typo and have to start over.

Fast forward a year or 30 and one of the biggest tasks on my daily to do list? Wading and weeding through all of the AI generated messages coming to my clients emails and social media accounts. There seem to be four types that we see the most:

  1. The Reviewer/Book Club
  2. The Evaluation
  3. The Best Selling Author Who Wants to Be Your Friend
  4. The TV/Radio/Podcast Personality Who Wants to Interview You (for a price)

The Reviewer/Book Club

These messages almost always begin with “Hello Wonderful Author” and promise hundreds, if not thousands, of positive reviews OR a smaller number if you pay per review or agree to pay a fee and review other authors’ work.

These seem ok at first. As the pitch continues you’ll discover it really equates to paying for reviews. That is a BIG no-no for Amazon and Goodreads. And, yes the algorithm for those sites will figure it out.

The best way to get reviews? Ask people who you know have actually read your book (or hire a real life publicist/marketer to help). Many people can be intimidated by the thought of writing a review. Tell them it doesn’t have to be lengthy or detailed. Even a star rating alone can help.

These scams can also come disguised as a Book Club with huge numbers of followers in cities all over the world and they want to promote your book. This could be legit, right?

Probably not.

Lots of empty promises and while the fees aren’t usually high, the probability of it resulting in sales is slim at best.

The worst part of these? It casts a dark shadow on those of us who have legitimate book club events and social media platforms (Bookmarks-Maine is mine and there are so many great ones in Maine).

The Evaluation

These messages sometimes take the time to use your actual name. Although, I’ve seen them get that wrong, too. The seemingly credible and seemingly human wanting to help you increase the visibility of your book(s). HINT: they aren’t human. This is all AI generated.

The lengthy email identifies key plot points in your book. It provides well thought out strategies and improvements to increase your online presence and, ultimately, sales. And, they’re willing to give you all of this for FREE because they were so impressed with your writing.

To writers everywhere that kind of validation is a dream come true.

Cue Sally Field at the Oscars “You like me! You really like me!”

Sadly, there is always a catch and it’s usually that the follow up is not free.

The evaluation they provided? You could have generated that yourself in <insert AI platform here> because that’s exactly what this “person” did. Even if you don’t give them any money, the real loss is the time you will spend going back and forth with them trying to get them to leave you alone.

The Best Selling Author Who Wants to Be Your Friend

Lee Goldberg has covered this one better than I ever could on his blog. Read about all of his interactions with “famous” authors here.

The short version: an internationally best selling author somehow finds YOUR book and YOUR contact information and is so impressed that they want to connect you with either their agent or their marketing person.

99.9% of the time, I don’t think John Grisham is emailing you. I hope someday I’m wrong.

The TV/Radio/Podcast Personality Who Wants to Interview You (for a price)

This one is a bit more tricky because it isn’t actually a scam. These are real people who are often starting a second or side career. They offer a media interview, exposure on their channels, and sometimes additional marketing materials.

Sounds great? You would pay for a commercial, why not this?

Here’s the test:  Ask them specific questions about their distribution, demographics, streaming numbers, etc… If they can’t answer those in the next interaction, don’t waste any more of your time. These are less of a scam and more of a decision about the best return on your marketing dollars.

A subset of these emails are the “personalities” impersonating real people. You search them online and verify lots of information that proves they are a real person. The problem usually is that they are not THAT real person. Again, check those email addresses.

All of these warnings aside, there are real marketing and publicity professionals out there who are sincere and skilled and who want to help you share your book with the widest audience possible.

The test for that? We’re usually willing and able to have a phone call, a video call or, my favorite, meet you for coffee to discuss how to make that happen.

As for the others, the best rule of thumb? If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

 

 

 

 

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The Morning Hours

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The Maine Crime Wave comes to you on May 30th. Register here. Guest of Honor is Ron Currie, Jr. Noir at the Bar the night before, as well as a curated trip through the research facilities of the Maine Historical Society. Don’t miss it!

And On

Those of you who’ve been following along know that I was semi-immobilized for a number of weeks this winter with knee replacement surgery. One of the (many) things I was concerned about beforehand was what it might do to my writing, in terms of schedule, how much time I could spend in the chair, and everything else that goes to make up the highly subjective and superstitious ways and means we all have of getting our work done.

Normally, my writing life went like this: get up, drink coffee, work out, write, then go to work. (I had the advantage of a professional schedule that let me to get my own work done before anyone else’s.) Even in retirement, that schedule didn’t change much, only elongated a little.

One of the many disadvantages of major surgery is that, for the first while afterward, the patient does not sleep well. In my case, this amounted to 4 AM icings for the offending joint, a general sense the sleeping unoperated-on world was a lot smarter than I was, and a curiosity about how long it would take before I could say I was glad I’d done this to myself.

After a couple days of that no-audience whining, lying on the couch with the leg up, it occurred to me that I could divert myself by trying to write—well before I was nominally awake, well before coffee, well before anyone else in my house stirred. (This last was critical.) I made no plan but sat (lay) with a pad and a pen.

Without getting deep into the details, by the time I was past the twelve weeks or so it took to get me substantially healed, I was surprised to realize I was writing a thousand words every morning and actually had the first draft of a new book.

“The morning hour has gold in its mouth.” The aphorism is variously attributed to the Germans or the Italians; I’d always heard it as something Goethe had said. What I’d relearned is that those first few hours, before the day rushes in, before you start scrolling for the news, before your living companions start to need you, are precious, and somehow more fruitful than the same number of hours later in the day.

And if, like me, you’re someone no one wants to talk to in the morning anyway, maybe this might be a good enough reason to try it. I am curious, though. How many of you do write first thing in the morning?

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I Didn’t Intend to Write a Book

From time to time, we like to introduce our readers to other Maine crime writers. Please welcome today’s guest to the blog:

Elaine Lohrman: I did not intend to write a book. It was just something I fell into. Conversations with Nora is not a crime thriller, but we will get to that part later. Some fifteen years ago, my mother was deep into dementia, and I was struggling to understand how my once loving parent could turn on me so viciously. A lovely lady, whom I call Nora, faithfully walked by my side during that time, helping me cry and deal with the inexplicable anger that welled up inside me.  Every week we met over dinner to have those difficult conversations that always began with “Why?”  Nora had experienced the mental decline of her own mother and had a deep understanding of what it is like to be “divorced” by one’s parent. Nora was a Stephen’s Minister, a lay person trained in compassionate caregiving of caregivers. Yes, that sounds strange, for a caregiver to need care, but while my mother was lost in her own confusing thoughts, I too was lost.

During one of our conversations, Nora suggested that I begin keeping a journal of my emotions and the struggle to rise above the anger and sense of loss that comes when walking beside someone with Alzheimer’s. And so, I began writing, somedays furiously scratching the words into the paper and other days letting the thoughts be washed away by my tears as they fell on the fresh ink. After several months of writing, I shared the journal with my husband in an attempt to help him understand my journey. He read it with great respect and love, and when he was finished reading, suggested that my little journal should become a book. “Your experience could help others know that they are not alone; that there are others who have the same thoughts and emotions.” And that is how Conversations with Norah became a book, a raw and heartfelt dialogue between two people who had suffered great loss all too soon.

Once the book was published, I discovered that I had a passion for writing. I needed to tell a story. My blog, Bandaid for a Caregiver, was born out of that need and I quickly found that it had an audience among adult children who shared a thirst for understanding and caring for those who suffered from the debilitating grips of dementia. After six months of blogging, however, I found that I no longer had the desire to research and talk about this horrible disease. I no longer needed to talk about it. You can still find vestiges of the blog online, but I have moved on. As Gin Mackey, a fellow writer and poet, said in her poem, The Poet is In, “she writes to get the poem out of her hair.” There are stories that need telling and I must do the telling!

After a short hiatus, I eagerly picked up my pen again, this time to write in a completely new genre –  historical crime thrillers. (I told you that we would eventually get to crime writing. Thank you for staying with me to this point!)  There was no question as to which time period in history I would choose. The Victorian era has always fascinated me and in the tradition of Isaac Bell in Clive Cussler’s tales, the Angus Quinn series was born in my first novel. The Boathouse is set against the backdrop of New York City in the early 1890s. It is the first in a series of thrillers that spin compelling stories of police corruption, murder, and deeply enduring love. The Angus Quinn series grew from there and Incident on Hopper Lane soon followed, with a third book due out this fall.

I’m sure historical crime writers will agree that it is an exciting genre in which to write! However, it is not an easy genre. Creating characters that easily fit into a particular time period involves an enormous amount of research to uproot even the tiniest details of the day. For example,  researching the various brands of smoking products available in 1893, determining the latest in women’s dress fashions, or discovering the surprisingly underdeveloped policing procedures in the New York Metropolitan Police department, keeps me on my toes! No detail is too small to research, because somewhere out there among my readers, someone knows that forensic science was in its infancy in the 1890s and the practice of gathering physical evidence had just begun. That reader will know that fingerprints are an intentional, high-quality imprint created in ink, while a finger mark is left on a surface by an unknown individual and is often incomplete or smudged.

Writing with authority and historical accuracy is the trademark of a well-developed story that is rooted in the past. Long live historical crime thrillers!

Elaine Lohrman, a native Texan, refers to herself as an “accidental author.” Her first book, Conversations with Nora, published in 2012, began as a daily journal written during the tumultuous years navigating her mother’s Alzheimer’s. Reviewers  describe her writing as “splendid” and say that she captures the emotions of a “tearful, difficult journey.” Lohrman’s subsequent fiction works are “engaging reads with well-developed characters.”

While her careers have been diverse, spreading as far afield as teaching music therapy in public schools, designing custom bridal gowns, and working as an executive assistant for a major league baseball team, she has always been committed to writing.

Lohrman’s series of historical crime thrillers are set in the late 1890s in New York City’s Upper West Side and spins compelling stories of police corruption, murder, and social concerns of the time. The Boathouse and Incident on Hopper Lane are the first two books in the Angus Quinn series, with a third due out in the fall. She holds a B.M.E. in Music Education from Southwest Texas State University and a Masters in Educational Supervision from The University of Texas. Lohrman is a member of P.E.O., a philanthropic organization dedicated to helping women achieve their goals in higher education. A singer, avid gardener, and public speaker, she lives in Camden, Maine, with her husband Bill and their five-year-old Springerdoodle Daisy.        

 

 

 

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A Good Story is Hard to Find by Guest Blogger, CL Malone

A Good Story is Hard to Find by Guest Blogger, CL Malone

What Can a 20th Century Short Story Writer Tell Us Today?

By CL Malone

Welcome to my first guest blog with the Maine Crime Writers. Thank you, Allison Keeton and Kate Flora, for the invitation. I’m genuinely honored.

In choosing content, I naturally segued to short stories. I had the good fortune to sell three short mystery fiction stories recently and am obsessed with the genre.

American genius, Flannery O’Connor, was a literary giant (and personal icon) who wrote powerful and disturbing short fiction in the twentieth century. At least, so says Google (the search engine and Gemini), Claude, and Chat GBT.

Of course, AI and its stepsisters (Chrome and Safari) can be mistaken. But fear not. My copy of Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works, Library of America, 1988, confirms it. Through a Southern Gothic lens, O’Connor offered twentieth-century readers nothing less than a unique way of seeing the world.



What advice can a writer of the last century offer us today? For the answer, let’s do a deep dive into her Twelve Tips of Writing.

By the way, O’Connor didn’t actually write her Twelve Tips of Writing. The tips are a compilation of her thoughts created posthumously by O’Connor’s partner and BF.

1. Consistent writing habits. O’Connor declared she wrote for 2 uninterrupted hours a day. Same time. Same place.

Good news, right? Two hours is doable. But uninterrupted? Same time? Same place? Yikes. What does that even mean?

2. A writer should find the crossroads where time, place, and eternity meet.

A bit esoteric but cool. Stories need time and place. Adding the universal (paraphrased by me) raises the story to the next level.

3. Arrange your novel backward and see what you see.

Yes! If you don’t know where you’re going, how will GPS get you there?

4. Stories need meaning. But meaning can’t be paraphrased. If it’s there, it’s there.

Subject to the caveat—double check with your beta reader.

5. Anything that makes you overly language-conscious is bad for a story, usually.

A little Elon Musk-ish with the qualifier. But good stuff. Are you listening, Claude?

6. Too much time to write is dangerous. If you have nothing else to do but write, you might get discouraged.

Wow. A true 20th-century concept. Free time is bad.

7. People without hope don’t write.

Or (paraphrasing), only optimistic people believe they can write. Substitute get published and she nailed it.

8. Writing a novel is a terrible experience. Your hair will fall out and teeth, decay.

I agree.

9. The omniscient narrator never speaks colloquially.

How would we know? Has anyone met one?

10. Writers can choose what they write about; not what they can make live.

So true! It takes a writer to make a story come alive. Sorry, AI.

11. The idiom—bad manners are better than no manners—is a condition that produces writers.

YES!

12. Humans are made of dust; if you scorn getting dusty, don’t try to write.

I might be wrong here, but dust, dirt, bones, blood… It’s possible O’Connor was projecting her inner mystery writer.

Summary: A literary giant is a literary giant for a reason. With respect, I believe O’Connor would tell writers today exactly what she told them before. Writers are human. Be fully present on the page.


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CL Malone

CL Malone is a short story writer, novelist, and retired attorney with 25 years of experience. Her short stories appear in Crime Spell’s Snakeberry: Best New England Crime Stories 2025, and soon in the Calgary 2026 Bouchercon Anthology. Her latest will be published in the Level Best Books Short anthology, Crime Before Our Time. In addition, she earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, is a published children’s writer, an in-demand consultant with Grub Street Boston, and co-founder of Write On Productions, a publishing and teaching platform. You can reach her at http://www.clmalone.com.

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Weekend Update April 18-19, 2026

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Maureen Milliken (Tuesday), Dick Cass (Thursday), and Vaughn Hardacker (Friday), with special guests Cheryl Lawson Malone (Monday) and Elaine Lohrman (Wednesday).

In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers:

 

 

 

 

An invitation to readers of this blog: Do you have news relating to Maine, Crime, or Writing? We’d love to hear from you. Just comment below to share.

And a reminder: If your library, school, or organization is looking for a speaker, we are often available to talk about the writing process, research, where we get our ideas, and other mysteries of the business, along with the very popular “Making a Mystery” with audience participation, and “Casting Call: How We Staff Our Mysteries.” We also do programs on Zoom. Contact Kate Flora

 

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Where’d That Word Come From?

Writers love words, and the English language is a rich challenge. Like the United States, the English language is a melting pot. In my undergraduate years at UConn, despite being a Business major (to please my father by pursuing a “technical” degree), I took many liberal arts courses, including one on Etymology, the origin of words.

English, the great melting pot


The roots of our native tongue are derived from many sources, including

—Latin (alibi, meaning elsewhere)
—Germanic (mother)
—Yiddish (schlep…one of my favorite words)
—French (seance….French for session)
—Old English, which has Germanic roots, of course (bread)
—Old Norse, short, punchy Viking-influenced words (egg)
—Ancient Greek (democracy)

just to name a very few examples.

In general, simple, practical, everyday words tend to come from Germanic roots, while more formal, flowery, or technical words come from French, Latin, or Greek. Go figure.


In addition, English deepens its layers by keeping multiple words for the same idea, such as ask (Old English), question (French), and interrogate (Latin), as well as lawyer (Norse) and attorney (French/Latin). Did you know that will comes from Germanic/Old English roots and testament from French ones? It makes me wonder who was in the room when it was decided to use both.

English was also influenced in a different way after 1066 (the Norman invasion of England). The French were nobility, and the English were working class, causing words about animals (such as pig) to come from the English, but words about the food (such as pork) to be French. To put it simply, the English were farmers who grew the food, and the French ate it.

One way to think about English’s evolution


The English language continues to evolve, incorporating other languages like Spanish (mosquito) and adding modern tweaks from hip-hop (Stan) and current-day inventions (google and meme). Sometimes it isn’t a new word, but a new definition for an existing word, that is evolves such as tweet, ghost, and lit.



I don’t pretend to be an expert in word origins. I’m just fascinated by it all. I’m also grateful to have English as my native tongue. I can’t imagine learning it from scratch as an adult. It’s hard enough to keep up with the cultural changes.

Let me know below how you keep up with the changing times, or if you have your own favorite word origin stories.

By the way, Merriam-Webster’s 2026 word of the year: Bed Rotting. Draw your own conclusions.


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Allison Keeton writes the Midcoast Maine Mystery series. Arctic Green, Book Two, is now available. She can be reached at http://www.akeetonbooks.com

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Let You Tell Me A Story

John Clark offering his maybe, almost, annual story prompts for your edification and pillaging. Feel free to choose one or more and create a story. In the past, I’ve turned a couple into books, and another into a long story. Who knows what might happen this time around. A few of these actually happened. Can you guess which ones?

1-Millie Folsom peeled a hard boiled egg, part of her usual morning routine, while gazing abstractedly out her kitchen window. Something had disturbed her sleep, but she couldn’t remember anything in her dreams that might have triggered her tired and uneasy state. She nearly dropped the egg when she spotted a large jagged home in the ice covering Simonton Pond. It was surrounded by an irregular swath of what looked like soot.

2-Precise was a word that fitted Eldora Millington perfectly. No one dared refer to her prized instrument as a fiddle. When someone foolishly did so, she corrected then in a voice that could terrify even the meanest schoolyard bully. It was a violin, thankyouverymuch, and she played it flawlessly, just like she disposed of the bodies her secret and extremely lucrative contract bound her to.

3-At the book sale a dark green volume had a yellowed slip of paper sticking out. “Go to page 76.” On it was an image that looked like a cross between a garden gnome and a leprechaun When it spoke, life changed in a heartbeat.

4-Al fumbled for his phone, eyes closed, head throbbing. Six months of sobriety gone. He hit his sponsor’s number. The call failed to go through, as did several more to friends. He tried them again, same result. The operator’s response chilled him. “Sir, you’re trying to call people in San Diego, California. Please add the correct area code.” Al braved the terrible wave of nausea as he stood and staggered to the window to see derelict trailers surrounded by dirty snow. Where the hell was he?

5-A voice in the darkness rang out, singing “Cockles and Mussels, Alive, Alive O.” Things got worse quickly.

6-Still, I remember it well, the year of abundant broccoli and unfettered foolishness

7-It was shortly after the first strange tree appeared that I noticed my early morning regulars weren’t showing up for coffee at the diner.

8-It was the day I realized why they were called sweat socks.

9-Gram tensed and looked at my grandfather before throwing the bubbling coffee pot through the kitchen window. “That’s the last I want to hear of it.”

10-”Political correctness in soda flavors, what the hell does that mean?” I asked. Maura raised one perfect eyebrow before saying, “You’ll soon see for yourself.

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Writing Tip Wednesday by Matt Cost

Read, Write, Reverse, Repeat.

If you want to be a writer, you need to do two things. You need to read and write. And then do it in reverse. And repeat. That’s all. Simple.

In Stephen King’s book, On Writing, he espouses that reading is breathing in, and writing is breathing out. Reading is the intake of oxygen that nourishes the creative output of writing. You cannot be a writer unless you read and write. It is that simple.

That being said, it is important not to read and regurgitate. The reading must be tossed around in your mind, molded, shaped, reformed—and emerge as your individual creation.

And you cannot agonize over every page, every paragraph, every sentence, and every word. You must read to nourish your creativity, and then let it flow in the form it wants to take. There will be time later for tinkering.

Read, Write, Reverse, Repeat.

 

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Maine’s Unique Sign of Spring

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, starting with an excerpt from A Fatal Fiction, the third Deadly Edits mystery featuring freelance editor Mikki Lincoln. In the series, Mikki has moved back to her old home town in rural New York after fifty years of living in Maine. She’s happy with her decision, but at this time of year she finds herself missing an annual event that can only be found in the Pine Tree State.

            Two days later, at nine on a gloomy, overcast Saturday morning with thundershowers in the forecast, I was at home trying to work on a short story sent to me by a new client when I was struck by a wave of nostalgia. For once, this was not prompted by a memory of growing up in Lenape Hollow, but rather by the realization that it was the third Saturday in April and for the second year in a row I was going to miss seeing the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race on TV.
            James and I didn’t live close enough to Bangor to attend in person, and we had never been tempted to participate, but it had been one of our annual traditions to watch the race from the comfort of our living room. The last time had been shortly before his death.
            It’s a little hard to explain the fascination of seeing canoes and kayaks wipe out in the rapids at Six Mile Falls. The crowds lining the banks at that point in the race are called “river vultures.” There are rescue crews there as well. Everyone who falls in is quickly pulled out again. For many years, another of the highlights was watching a retired librarian in a white tuxedo go over the falls while standing up in his canoe. He always made it safely through.   

That white-tuxedo-wearing librarian is Zip Kellogg, now retired from the University of Maine’s Glickman Library in Portland. He’s also an author with several canoe guides to his credit.

As for the Kenduskeag Stream Canoe Race, it is still going strong. In fact, it will be run this coming Saturday and will be televised (from Six Mile Falls) on Channel 5, the local CBS affiliate, and probably streamed online at their website as well. Since I share Mikki’s fascination with canoes getting stuck on the rocks and/or tipping over when they try to navigate Six Mile Falls, and also enjoy seeing the crazy costumes some paddlers wear, I’ll be glued to the screen for a solid two hours, although of course it takes longer than that for participants to travel the 16 ½ miles from Kenduskeag to downtown Bangor.

I have no idea what it is that appeals to me about this event. Possibly it’s just that it’s unique. It’s also a heck of a lot more entertaining than watching strangers golf or play poker or bowl.

For more information, you can go to https://www.kenduskeagstreamcanoerace.com

Kathy Lynn Emerson/Kaitlyn Dunnett has had sixty-four books traditionally published and has self published others. She won the Agatha Award and was an Anthony and Macavity finalist for best mystery nonfiction of 2008 for How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries and was an Agatha Award finalist in 2015 in the best mystery short story category. In 2023 she won the Lea Wait Award for “excellence and achievement” from the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance. She was the Malice Domestic Guest of Honor in 2014. She is currently working on creating new editions of her backlist titles. Her website is www.KathyLynnEmerson.com.

 

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