Tag Archives: Face Down Mysteries

Inspirations for Names

Posted on December 1, 2025 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. The other day my friends over at the Word Wenches blog answered a reader question about where they got their characters’ names. A couple of days later, the same topic came up at Jungle Red. … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged cats, Deadly Edits Mysteries, Face Down Mysteries, inspirations, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Liss MacCrimmon Myseries, naming characters, Shalla | 4 Comments

Whew! Project Finished!

Posted on May 1, 2025 by kaitlynkathy

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 →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Face Down Mysteries, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Lady Appleton's World. Murder in a Cornish Alehouse, Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries, omnibus e-book editions, paperbacks, print on demand, writing projects | 4 Comments

Paring Down the Prose

Posted on March 3, 2025 by kaitlynkathy

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 →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Face Down Mysteries, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries, Murder in the Merchant's Hall, reissuing books, revising novels, writing | 4 Comments

Thanks to Amazon, Confusion Reigns

Posted on January 20, 2025 by kaitlynkathy

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 →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Amazon bots, e-books, Face Down Mysteries, Face Down O'er the Border, frustations of self-publishing, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Lady Appleton's World, The Face Down Collection Three, trade paperbacks | 3 Comments

Update on the Face Downs

Posted on August 15, 2024 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today writing as Kathy. Face Down Under the Wych Elm released a week ago, meaning the first five books in the Face Down series are now available in newly edited, print-on-demand, trade paperback editions. The … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Face Down Mysteries, Face Down Under the Wych Elm, future plans, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Lady Appleton, short stories | 8 Comments

Story and Structure

Posted on July 1, 2024 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today writing as Kathy. As I’ve mentioned before here at Maine Crime Writers, I’m in the process of editing and reissuing my Face Down mystery series, ten novels originally published between 1997 and 2007. They … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Cadfael, Colin Firth, Ellis Peters, Face Down Beneath the Eleanor Cross, Face Down Mysteries, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Much Ado About Nothing, plotting, revising, writing inspirations, writing tips | 1 Comment

Why Getting It Right Should Matter

Posted on June 3, 2024 by kaitlynkathy

Kathy Lynn Emerson here, fired up to tackle an old pet peeve of mine—writers (and editors and reviewers) who don’t seem to care about using forms of address correctly. Just because a book is fiction doesn’t mean it’s okay to … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Face Down Mysteries, forms of address, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, knights and ladies, pet peeves, research | 8 Comments

The Name Game

Posted on May 2, 2024 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today musing about names. Selecting the right name for each character, of course, is a crucial part of writing fiction. The name has to either fit, or deliberately not fit the character it is assigned … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged Deadly Edits Myseries, Face Down Mysteries, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, naming characters, nicknames, Valentine Veilleux Mysteries | 3 Comments

Whatever Happened to . . . (and a giveaway)

Posted on May 2, 2022 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. I’m not sure what got me started on this topic, but I’ve been thinking lately about the various protagonists I’ve created over the years and speculating about what might have happened to them after their … Continue reading →

Posted in Kaitlyn's Posts | Tagged 1888 Mystery Quartet, Deadly Edits Mysteries, Diana Spaulding, Face Down Mysteries, Kaitlyn Dunnett, Kathy Lynn Emerson, Liss MacCrimmon Mysteries, Mikki Lincoln, Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries, Rosamond Jaffrey, Susanna Appleton | 31 Comments

A Peculiar Thing

Posted on December 23, 2021 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today ruminating about a very peculiar thing that’s happened at our house. As regular readers of this blog know, I haven’t been writing anything new lately, both because I am not currently under contract anywhere … Continue reading →