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How Research Changed My Story
I had the honor of lobstering this summer with a friend who hauls 120 traps a day, six days a week. I met him at the harbor at 3:30 in the morning, and we returned at 4:30 in the afternoon, … Continue reading
Posted in Allison's Posts
Tagged amateur sleuth, book research, books, lobster, lobster boat, lobster roll, lobstering, Maine, midcoast maine, mysteries, mystery writer, research
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Forty-Year-Old Clues to the Muse
Sandra Neily here: Recently, I unearthed a journal I kept long ago when I traveled alone with my dog Harry, across the country and into western states I wanted to explore. Today I think I was looking for clues to … Continue reading
Nine Lords A-Leaping
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today writing about how I came to invent “the Twelve Shopping Days of Christmas” for my 2009 cozy mystery, A Wee Christmas Homicide. This was to be the third book in a three-book contract for … Continue reading
The Mystery of Aunt Carrie’s Boardinghouse
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today sharing another of my family history mysteries. Warning: this is a long post! Recently, the land that went out of my mother’s family back in 1958 and was thereafter abandoned until it became completely … Continue reading
Advice from ‘Butt In The Chair’ Experts
Sandra Neily Here; I needed someone wise in my ear this month and a few words of inspiration. Found some! From Joe Fassler’s interviewing 150 writers: First Sentence “The first line must convince me that it somehow embodies the entire … Continue reading
Success: Ruin Meals. Write 5th Grade Prose.
Sandra Neily here: This post is about simple food and simple writing. Both, easily digestible. Author Louise Penny has ruined me for any restaurant or pub memories I used to cherish. What’s more, she may have ruined every attempt to … Continue reading
The Mystery of Miron Gonzalous Hornbeck
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. One of the nice things about being semi-retired is having the time to work at solving some of the mysteries hanging on my family tree. Since I’m not famous enough to be on Finding Your … Continue reading
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Tagged early New York settlers, genealogy, Kaitlyn Dunnet, Kathy Lynn Emerson, mysteries
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What’s the Point… of View?
I’ve been reading more widely than usual lately—thrillers, a variety of mysteries, literary fiction—as well as romantic suspense novels, which is what I write. One thing I have been paying attention to (a bother with being a writer as well … Continue reading
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Tagged crime writing, Maine Crime Writers, mysteries, Once Burned, Susan Vaughan, writing
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Fiction Does Truth … Better
“Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.” Doris Lessing “Fiction is the lie that tells the truth.” (From the article, “Truth in Fiction: 3 Lessons from … Continue reading
