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Whew! Project Finished!
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, breathing a sigh of relief that a post-retirement project started way back in September of 2021 is finally complete. That was when I embarked on the task of editing my Face Down series of historical … Continue reading
How It All Began, Part Three
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. My original plan was to tell you “How It All Began” with the early equivalent of blogging. That would be journals written in the form of letters to imaginary friends. The first was named Estelle, … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiographical bits, blogs, diaries, early writing, essays, high school musicals, journals, Someday, The Music Man
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How It All Began, Part Two
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, continuing with a theme I started with my last post. This time I’m looking back on my earliest attempt at writing non-fiction. Later I wrote and sold several books in this genre, including my Agatha-award-winning … Continue reading
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How It All Began, Part One
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today taking a long leap back into my past. Some of my bios have included the information that my earliest writing was in the form of a newspaper, The Dolland Times. Yes, I wrote it … Continue reading
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Tagged dreams, early writing, inspiratons, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson
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Paring Down the Prose
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today sharing some examples of what I do when I revise the mysteries in my Face Down series and its spinoff, the Mistress Jaffrey series, both set in Elizabethan England. First off, I have to … Continue reading
The Joys of Upgrading
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today sharing the “joys” of upgrading from my fifteen-year-old pc to a new laptop. I didn’t want to do it, but there were two arguments in favor. One, of course, was that my husband’s pc, … Continue reading
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Tagged computer upgrades, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, technodinosaurs, Technology
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The Great Ice Storm of 1998
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Our group post last week had me going through my photos of winter in Maine, and that led, inevitably to pictures of a three-and-a-half-day weather event that was unprecedented here in Maine. It took place … Continue reading
Thanks to Amazon, Confusion Reigns
Kathy Lynn Emerson/Kaitlyn Dunnett here. As regular Maine Crime Writers blog readers know, I am spending my retirement re-editing and reissuing backlist titles. The process goes pretty smoothly, if not at all rapidly, until the books are actually released. Then, … Continue reading
Kathy’s Rules for Commas
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today taking issue with style sheets. One advantage of self-publishing in e-book and POD formats is that I am no longer bound by “house” styles, the choices on spelling, grammar, and punctuation issues that publishers … Continue reading
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Tagged commas, copy editors, grammar rules, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, punctuation, spelling, style sheets
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