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Author Archives: Brenda Buchanan
New England Crime Bake Update
The ongoing pandemic is forcing us to ask the same plaintive question we’ve been asking since March, 2020— is whatever it is we’ve been yearning for actually going to happen? Is there a suitable outdoor venue so our favorite concert series … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, crime writers, New England Crime Bake
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I Read Ruth Moore
I’ve been re-reading Ruth Moore lately, inspired to revisit her novels by a familiar bumper sticker I spotted when we were in Deer Isle in May looking for migrating warblers. These blue and white declarations of literary loyalty are a … Continue reading
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Tagged Gott's Island, Hancock County, Ruth Moore, Spoonhandle, The Weir
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BALANCE, STORY GENRE AND HOW MUCH ROOM DOES BACKSTORY GET?
Today I’m pleased to introduce MWC blog readers to Jule Selbo, a multi-talented writer who recently has made Portland her permanent home. Jule is a former screenwriter (with film and television credits), a playwright (her most-recent play BOXES premiered at … Continue reading
How a Post-Pandemic Road Trip is like Writing a Book
This past weekend my spouse and I set doubt and fear aside and took a road trip. Like many others who live distant from kin, it had been a too long since we’d seen our families in person. We kept … Continue reading
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Tagged Kathy Lynn Emerson, Maine Crime Wave, New England Crime Bake, road trips, writing
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Writing After The Pandemic
I’ve been thinking lately about a literature class I took in high school that focused on the work of some of the most well-known writers of the early twentieth century. While the old-school denizens of the English Department marched us … Continue reading
The Remarkable Margaret Maron
When I met Margaret Maron at Bouchercon in Raleigh in October, 2015, I not only had a fan girl moment, I announced to her that I was having a fan girl moment. She laughed and took my hand and told … Continue reading
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Tagged Deborah Knott Series, Margaret Maron, North Carolina, Sigrid Harald Series
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Grounding our Stories: Place Matters
Last week I hung photographs and prints on the walls of my workday office, the final task of a renovation that began in December 2019 and was completed—but for the picture hanging—two months later. For the twelve months it took … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston taverns, Caren Marie Michel, clear cuts, mill towns, Monica Wood, Paul Doiron, Richard Cass
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Better Late Than Never . . .
Last week my blogmates posted gorgeous photographs of their winter worlds. I tried to add a few of my own, but thanks to the vagaries of WordPress (a blog post all its own) they disappeared into the ether. I was … Continue reading
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Tagged Beach walks, Brooklin, Pine Point, Popham, Scarborough, walking the winter beach, winter
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