Tag Archives: Down East Books

Out with the old?

Posted on April 24, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, taking a break from some spring cleaning. Clearing stuff out. Digging through cartons. Figuring out what stays and what goes. Books. Papers. Manuscripts. Notes. Yes, in the back corner of a closet I came upon … Continue reading →

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If Hemingway Could Do It …

Posted on April 9, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, and yes, he did. Hemingway, I mean. And so did Fitzgerald. Edith Wharton. Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. They sat down at the keyboard and pounded the keys. I’m talking about writing at a typewriter, … Continue reading →

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A Writer’s Best Friend

Posted on March 6, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And for today’s post the plan was to write about how most writers require solitude for their craft and yet, confirming that each book come together differently, I recently wrote two good chapters on a … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Baby, Meet Bathwater

Posted on June 27, 2012 by mcwarchives

Hello again from Sarah Graves, thinking today about this morning’s headline: “Richard Russo boycotts e-books.” Well, of course he is doing no such thing. He’s simply decided to publish one book, a collaboration with his daughter and son-in-law called Interventions, … Continue reading →