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How I Learned to Stop Pantsing and Get Words on the Page
You could say I’ve been at this game a long time. My first publication credits were in teen magazines in the late 1960s. My first traditionally published book was released in 2014. Since that time, I’ve published two additional books. … Continue reading
Talking Shop—Who’s your victim?
“Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” Robert Louis Stevenson I write murder mysteries. Although they don’t all start out that way, and sometimes aren’t meant to be about murder at all. The story may begin … Continue reading
Story and Structure
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
In Maine, it’s Mainely about the Weather!
Before I moved to Maine, I wondered why it was home to so many mystery authors. The kind who write books that rely on twists. How often have you been smugly cruising along for a chapter or so, certain you … Continue reading
The Brown Thumb Struggles On
Kate Flora: Confessing that today, with so much chaos in the country, I am finding it hard to write. Hard to think because I have no focus. I have nothing to say about writing, wouldn’t touch politics with a barge pole, … Continue reading
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Tagged gardening, Katre Flora, plotting, The Corpse in the Compost
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Math Problem
Dorothy Cannell: I have always thought of myself as having less than mediocre intelligence. At school I was weak on geography, biology and French and was horrible at math (or maths as we called it in England) from long division and multiplication … Continue reading
PLOTTING ON MONHEGAN ISLAND
Wanting take advantage of Maine’s glorious Septmber weather, my husband and I spent a day on Monhegan Island. This small island, only about one square mile, is one of our favorite places to get away and hike. Camera mandatory. We … Continue reading
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Tagged Monhegan Island, plotting, plotting books, Susan Vaughan, writing
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Figuring out the Why Dunit
Next year’s Liss MacCrimmon novel has been turned in and accepted and it’s time to start thinking about the next book in the series, the one that will be out in 2014. I’m in the fortunate position, after writing seven … Continue reading
