Tag Archives: Grub Street

Conferences, Conferences, Conferences

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Barbara Ross

by Barb, on the train to Malice Domestic even as you read this My business partner and I used to joke that anything anyone asked us to do, we would agree to, as long as it was six months away. … Continue reading →

Posted in Barb's Posts | Tagged Agatha award, Breakwater Books, Brendan Rielly, Bruce Robert Coffin, Grub Street, liz mugavero, Lucy Burdette, Maine Crime Wave, Malice Domestic, Maureen Milliken, Meg Ruley, Muse and the Marketplace, Richard J. Cass, Tess Gerritsen, Wicked Cozy Authors | 9 Comments

Growing New Ideas

Posted on April 25, 2014 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora here, bookending the week with another post. Lately, life has felt like I’m impelled forward by some unseen hand that is shoving and nudging me along from one task to another. My to-do list seems endless. I would … Continue reading →

Posted in Kate's Posts | Tagged And Grant You Peace, Death Dealer, Death Warmed Over, Grub Street, Joe Burgess, New England Crime Bake, New Horizon Press Books, Thea Kozak mysteries | 4 Comments

Using Pinterest to Promote Your Books

Posted on November 30, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

This week on Maine Crime Writers: Monday, Gerry Boyle; Tuesday, Kaitlyn Dunnett; Wednesday, Vicki Doudera; Thursday, Lea Wait; Friday, James Hayman. Our guest today, Grub Street instructor and author Celeste Ng, gives advice on ways that writers might use Pinterest … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Blog | Tagged "Love at First Reads", Arianna Huffington "What I'm Reading" board, Celeste Ng, Cutting Teeth, Dorie Clark, Everything I Never Told You, Facebook, Fiona Parker, Google, Grub Street, Grub Street's Launch Lab, Helen Zell Writers Program, Jane Friedman, Julia Fierro, Justine Musk, Kami Garcia, Linked In, pinterest, Randy Susan Meyers, The Comfort of Lies, The Murderer's Daughter, The Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Titani Moot, University of Michigan, writing prompts | 12 Comments

Kate Asks Barb about the Grub Street Launch Lab

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Barbara Ross

Recently, Kate Flora asked Barb Ross about what she learned being a part of the Grub Street Launch Lab pilot. We thought you might like to listen in on their conversation. Kate: Barb, in anticipation of your new Clambake series, … Continue reading →

Posted in Barb's Posts, Kate's Posts | Tagged Barbara Ross, clammed up, Eve Bridburg, Grub Street, Kate Flora, launch lab, Sarah Gerkensmeyer, SMART goals for writers | 7 Comments

Dreaming

Posted on May 24, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

When I was growing up on a chicken farm in a small Maine town, money was often tight. Bill collectors really did knock on the door, sometimes the phone got turned off, and there was a large hole in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Kate's Posts | Tagged 4-H, Chosen for Death, Deputy Chief Joseph K. Loughlin, Edgar Awards, Finding Amy, Grub Street, Kate Flora, Katherine Hall Page, Lea Wait, Maine Literary Awards, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, Paul Doiron, Redemption, Sears and Roebuck, Thea Kozak, Union Maine, Vose Library | 7 Comments

Running Away from Home

Posted on May 3, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora here, checking in from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. I’m in Amherst, Virginia, spending two weeks as a writing fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This is my second time here. I first came … Continue reading →

Posted in Kate's Posts | Tagged Amherst Virginia, Grub Street, obsessive writing, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, writer's residency | 2 Comments

What Happens When 12,000 Writers Converge

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Barbara Ross

Hi. Barb here. Last week I attended AWP, the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Boston. Why did I go? It was one of those weird convergences in life where you’ve never heard of something, and then all … Continue reading →

Posted in Barb's Posts | Tagged 2013, Alice Hoffman, All this talk of Love, Andrew Goldstein, Association of Writers and Writing Programs, AWP, Barbara Ross, Best New England crime stories: Blood moon, Boston, Christopher Castellani, Grub Street, Helen Keller in Love, Henriette Power, Hope Edelman, ilan mochari, launch lab, Level Best Books, Malice Domestic, marjan Kamali, New England Crime Bake, Rosie Sultan, Sarah Gerkensmeyer, Steve Almond, The Bookie's Son, the clover house, Together Tea, Tom Perrotta, webct, What you are now enjoying, zinsky the obscure | 4 Comments

In My Little Black Book – Part 1 – A Sense of Place

Posted on January 28, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora here, writing from the other coast. I’ve written before about the distraction of reading books in my genre when I’m deeply into a story of my own. Today’s post is a variation on that–the distraction of reading books … Continue reading →

Posted in Kate's Posts | Tagged Brown University, Cape Cod Writers Conference, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, Grub Street, James D. Houston, Joe Burgess mysteries, Maine Writers and Publishers, parrots of Telegraph Hill, Writer's Workshop in a Book | 3 Comments

New Year’s Resolutions and SMART Goals

Posted on December 29, 2012 by Barbara Ross

Happy New Year all. Barb here at the very end of the year. Because book one in my new Maine Clambake series was due on December 1, this is proving a particularly fruitful time for me to think and plan … Continue reading →

Posted in Barb's Posts | Tagged Barbara Ross, Grub Street, launch lab, smart goals, writing | 5 Comments

A Psych Visit Along The Trail

Posted on October 6, 2012 by mainecrimewriters

Hi, it’s Kate Flora, busily heading into fall, and a huge list of demanding tasks, including the necessity of producing a new Joe Burgess mystery, And Grant You Peace, by May. I’m teaching. We’re renovating our house. Family is coming … Continue reading →