Tag Archives: nostalgia

Ghosts of Malice Past

Posted on May 1, 2023 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Malice Domestic, a gathering of mystery readers and writers, has just wrapped up its thirty-fifth conference in Bethesda, Maryland. Although I would encourage anyone who writes mysteries, especially in the traditional and cozy genres, to … Continue reading →

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Nostalgia, Comfort Food, and Cherry Tomatoes

Posted on December 5, 2019 by Richard Cass

If nostalgia is the comfort food of memory, what do we make of the fact that memory is so slippery? For the first thirty years of my life, I believed wholly in the memory I had of waking up in … Continue reading →

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Plans, as in Floor

Posted on September 26, 2019 by kaitlynkathy

Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today talking about one of the things I always do during the planning stages of a novel. Even if I’m going to be writing about a fictional place, I collect maps of the real surrounding … Continue reading →