Tag Archives: Damaged Goods

The Writer’s Ritual

Posted on November 26, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey, all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m here today to tell you that that I couldn’t have written a single line, a single chapter, a single book without one thing. Red Rose tea. Red Rose has been the key ingredient … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Port City Black and White, Red Rose Tea, writers' rituals | 8 Comments

Part J.D. Salinger, part Patricia Cornwell

Posted on November 1, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, having a weird morning. A newspaper columnist wrote about my books this morning, describing the ways real-life crime has resembled my fictional version. Maureen Milliken, the columnist for the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel, writes … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Ayla Reynolds, Brandon Blake, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Holly Boutilier, Home Body, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, maine mysteries, Port City Black and White | 2 Comments

On the Zumba Scandal and Other Great Book Ideas

Posted on October 20, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey, all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m sure I’m not the only Maine crimewriter who has heard this in the past week: “That Zumba story—boy, that would make a great book for you.” The last time I got this many … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexis Wright, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Kennebunk, Maine, Maine Crime Writers, Port City Black and White, Zumba, Zumba case | 3 Comments

When Writers Team Up, What?

Posted on October 13, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, with a question for the group and anyone else out there in the crimewriter blogosphere. I’m beginning a collaboration with another writer. We’re writing a crime novel together and we’re both psyched about it. We … Continue reading →

Tagged Barbara Ross, Best New England Crime Stories 2013 Bllod Moon, Brandon Blake, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Group Post, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine Crime Writers, Paul Doiron, Port City Black and White | 5 Comments

A Place Called Maine

Posted on October 8, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I wasn’t sure what I was going to write about today until I was reading the newspaper last week and saw a drug bust—bags of Oxycodone, stolen handguns, felons with outstanding warrants. That’s no … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged A Place Called Maine, Bill Roorbach, Carolyn Chute, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, E.B. White, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Maine, Maine writers, Monica Wood, Port City Black and White, Richard Ford, Richard Russo | 2 Comments

Touched by the Long Arm of the Law

Posted on September 27, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Gerry Boyle here. And OK, I have to admit that my fascination with this murder case may have to do with the fact that it happened at the outset of my newspaper career, in a town I came to know … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Jay Mercier, Maine Crime Writers, mysteries, mystery writers, mystery writing, Port City Black and White, Port City Shakedown, Rita St. Peter, writing | 7 Comments

An Ode to Crime Writers’ Kids

Posted on September 14, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. Today is my son’s birthday. He’s my youngest: 22, a senior in college. We have a good time. Watching sports. Fishing. Shooting guns. Driving his vintage El Camino muscle car. Just talking. I even turned … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime novels, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Ken Bruen, maine mysteries, mystery writing, Port City Black and White, Port City Shakedown | 13 Comments

That Doesn’t Happen Here

Posted on August 22, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Gerry Boyle here. Interrupting your lovely Maine summer with a bit of a reality check. Heroin. Triple murders. Brutal beatings. That’s the news from “Maine, the way life should be” this week. Sorry to rain on your lobster dinner but … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts | Tagged Bangor Daily News, Bangor triple homicide, Brandon Blake, crime stories, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Daniel T. Borders, Down East Books, Gerry Boyle, Howland assault, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, Lucas A. Tuscano, Nicolle A. Lugdon, Port City Black and White | 7 Comments

Maine, Where Your Neighbor Can Be a Mystery

Posted on August 9, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Gerry Boyle here. Just back from a 30-mile bike ride. The miles fly by on the back roads in my part of Maine—woods, farms, cows, dogs (hopefully on chains), last week a near collision with a tractor pulling a load … Continue reading →

Posted in Gerry's Posts, Uncategorized | Tagged Brandon Blake, crime writing, Damaged Goods, Down East Books, fiction writing, Gerry Boyle, Jack McMorrow, Jack McMorrow Mysteries, mystery writing, Port City Black and White, writing | 10 Comments

We Don’t Write For The Money

Posted on July 28, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Gerry Boyle here, and maybe some of us do. Write for the money, I mean. But even writers who have more money than God keep typing away. Why? Because like the rest orf us, they feel like they have something … Continue reading →