Monthly Archives: November 2012

Confessions of a Political Addict

Posted on November 6, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

My name is Lea Wait and, I could measure my life by elections. My family bought their first television set to watch the 1956 political conventions. I remember lying on my stomach on the floor of our family room in New … Continue reading →

Posted in Lea's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Gadsden Purchase, growing up political, Lea Wait, National Archives, Nixon's second inaugural ball, Olympia Snowe, paper ballots, presidential election, Village Independent Democrats, voting in Maine | 8 Comments

Early Winter

Posted on November 5, 2012 by mcwarchives

Hello again from Sarah Graves, in Eastport, Maine where the storm did not do much of anything. A little wind, a little rain, a few blown-away tarps. Really, if you’re going to spend tarp money you might as well let … Continue reading →

Posted in Sarah's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged crime writers, crime writing, Eastport, Maine, Sarah Graves | 4 Comments

An Interview with Cyberstalking Expert Jayne Hitchcock

Posted on November 4, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Q. You are the founder of an organization called WHOA. How was WHOA started? JH: I was cyberstalked in 1996 and at the beginning of 1997, a friendintroduced me to a Lynda Hinkle, who was also being cyberstalked. We co-founded WHOA, … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blog | Tagged Jayne Hitchcock, Murder and Mayhem, Net Crimes and Misdemeanors, Phoebe the Crime Dog, stalking, True Crime OnLine: Shocking Stories of Scamming, WHOA, WHOA-KTD | 14 Comments

The Reny’s Early Bird Sale–A Maine Tradition

Posted on November 3, 2012 by mcwarchives

The parking lot at 6 am – full! Vicki Doudera here, writing you after having risen at six a.m. today for my November pilgrimage to my local Reny’s Department Store. If you aren’t from Maine, you might be wondering just … Continue reading →

Posted in Vicki's Posts | Tagged Maine shopping, Reny's, Reny's Early Bird Sale, Vicki Doudera | 3 Comments

Kaitlyn vs. the Robots

Posted on November 2, 2012 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett here, just back from the Novelists Inc. conference, a gathering of multi-published writers of genre fiction. Like most who attended, I took copious notes because things like discoverability (reaching new readers) and figuring out how to best use … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged authors, home pages, index page, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kate Emerson, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Kelly McClymer, Novelists Inc, novels, robots, SEO, spiders, web pages, writers | 9 Comments

Part J.D. Salinger, part Patricia Cornwell

Posted on November 1, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, having a weird morning. A newspaper columnist wrote about my books this morning, describing the ways real-life crime has resembled my fictional version. Maureen Milliken, the columnist for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, writes … Continue reading →