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If Music Be the Food of Love, Cook On
Yes, I know Shakespeare didn’t write it that way in Twelfth Night. But I’m definitely not the first to make the connection between food and love. In crime fiction as well as in romance fiction, people’s relationships are at the … Continue reading
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Tagged crime writing, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, mystery writers, mystery writing, Susan Vaughan, writing
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Journey of a Book
Susan Vaughan here. My next book, Hidden Obsession, will be released this coming Wednesday. Reaching that achievement has been a long journey, eleven years, to be exact. Not that I’ve been writing it that long, but the germ for it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Coffin, crime writing, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, mystery writing, Susan Vaughan
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Weird Gardening: Ticks, Slugs, Cats, and Beetles
Sandy Neily here, trying to keep slugs off my petunias. A few years ago, writing for a regional paper, I went looking for unusual garden tips, first interviewing Joanne Suley, a spunky Skillins Greenhouses instructor. “People are just going to … Continue reading
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Kate Flora: When people ask about a writer’s process, the questions are usually about whether we are plotters (outliners) or pantsers–writing by the seat of our pants. Sometimes the questions are about the number of hours we write, and whether we … Continue reading
THE THRILL OF THE PLOT
Susan Vaughan here. At the Maine Crime Wave conference earlier this month, I attended a craft session entitled “Yes, You, Too, Can Write Killer Plots,” taught by the amazing Gayle Lynds, award-winning thriller writer extraordinaire. I write romantic suspense, a … Continue reading
Consistency & Continuity: The ARCs That Define A Series
Vaughn C. Hardacker here: In my last blog I discussed the importance of characters in writing a series. I ended that blog introducing the concepts of consistency and continuity and will make them the primary subject of this blog. In … Continue reading
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Tagged crime writing, series writing, Vaughn Hardacker, writing
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More Magic, More Empthy, More Urgency
What if nature-based fiction works better than most any science course we ever took? What if it delivers more magic, more empathy, more urgency, and more wisdom than a cross-section or diagram ever could? When authors use the natural world … Continue reading
