Tag Archives: Bruce Robert Coffin

A Lifetime of Achievement

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

Last month I attended my fifth New England Crime Bake Mystery Conference in Woburn, Massachusetts. One of this year’s highlights was watching Kate Flora receive the Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to the Crime Bake and the mystery community. … Continue reading →

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Weekend Update: November 24-25, 2018

Posted on November 24, 2018 by kaitlynkathy

Next week at Maine Crime Writers, there will be posts by Susan Vaughan (Monday) Maureen Milliken (Tuesday), Dorothy Cannell (Wednesday) Lea Wait (Thursday), and John Clark (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog … Continue reading →

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Launching #3

Posted on November 9, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

Happy Friday all! Bruce Robert Coffin here, fresh off the launch of the third novel in my Detective Byron series. You might think by now that launching a book would be old hat. You’d be wrong. I felt exactly the … Continue reading →

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The Impossible Transition

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

This blog was originally written as “Giving Up The Badge” for the Murder-Books Blog, another site to which I contribute. Given the huge response from readers I’ve decided to repost in order to share with the Maine Crime Writer audience. … Continue reading →

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Creating Drama

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

People often ask how I go about plotting my novels. How does one write a great thriller? Is there some trick to it? Well, as any mystery/thriller writer will tell you there is no trick. Creating a book that is … Continue reading →

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Interview with Liz Milliron

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

  Liz Milliron has been making up stories, and creating her own endings for other people’s stories, for as long as she can remember. She survived growing up through reading, cutting her mystery teeth on Agatha Christie, Mary Higgins Clark … Continue reading →

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Another Look Back

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Bruce Robert Coffin

Bruce Robert Coffin here waxing nostalgic. I was seated at my writing desk this past weekend trying to decide what I wanted to blog about this month on Maine Crime Writers when Facebook shared a memory with me. After reading … Continue reading →

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Weekend Update: November 4-5, 2017

Posted on November 4, 2017 by kaitlynkathy

Next week at Maine Crime Writers, there will be posts by Brenda Buchanan (Monday), Dick Cass (Tuesday), Lea Wait (Wednesday), Barb Ross (Thursday), and Vaughn Hardacker (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog … Continue reading →

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Recharged

Posted on November 3, 2017 by Bruce Robert Coffin

Bruce Robert Coffin here, wishing you all a happy November. I hope that you came out of our latest doozy of a storm relatively unscathed. Mother Nature has a habit of reminding us just how good we have it. Maybe … Continue reading →

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Weekend Update: September 9-10, 2017

Posted on September 9, 2017 by kaitlynkathy

Next week at Maine Crime Writers, there will be posts by Lea Wait (Monday), Barb Ross (Tuesday), Brendan Rielly (Wednesday), Jessie Crockett (Thursday), and John Clark (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly … Continue reading →

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