Author Archives: mainecrimewriters

Today’s blogger got bogged down (I almost wrote “Blogged down”) so since we’re all about craft as well as all things Maine, we’re sharing a post about story structure from our blogging alum, Jen Blood: Jen Blood: When I first started writing, … Continue reading →

Kate Flora: A thousand years ago, when I was in elementary school, we learned this poem by Nancy Byrd Turner for Halloween. Black And Gold Everything is black and gold, Black and gold, to-night: Yellow pumpkins, yellow moon Yellow candlelight; … Continue reading →

Today, to celebrate Halloween in all its dark glory, we’re sharing some of the scariest books and movies (TV shows count, too) we’ve ever read or seen. We invite you to join in.   John Clark: Books don’t scare me, … Continue reading →

Kate Flora here, apologizing. We were supposed to rerun one of Darcy Scott’s posts yesterday, but someone (me?) got busy clearing out cupboards of anything the mouse might eat and then driving several hours in the rain and became brain dead … Continue reading →

Since she wrote so beautifully about country living and the changes of the seasons, I thought I’d share one of late mother’s posts today. This comes from the October chapter of her essay collection, From The Orange Mailbox.  A Carman … Continue reading →