Tag Archives: Thea Kozak

Introducing Death Warmed Over – A Thea Kozak mystery

Posted on August 16, 2017 by

Kate Flora: I originally wrote this book more than four years ago, and it has wandered through the world of publishing ever since. After several years of waiting for a publisher to get around to it, I decided to publish it … Continue reading →

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Literary Adventurer Plots Her Next Journey

Posted on January 11, 2017 by

Kate Flora: I’ve written here before about the perplexing challenges presented to today’s writer about balancing time for writing with time for marketing, tweeting, facebooking, and generally staying visible to readers on all the various platforms. It’s exhausting. If you read … Continue reading →

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Can You Afford to Get Published?

Posted on August 10, 2015 by

Kate Flora here, with a question I’ve been pondering on this week. Usually, published writers like to paint a glowy picture of the world we inhabit. It is true that, having struggled often for years to finally become published, we … Continue reading →

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It’s Just Your Imagination

Posted on February 25, 2015 by

Kate Flora here deeply immersed in the next Joe Burgess, And Led Them Thus Astray. Since I spend much of the time when I’m not writing my own books editing other writers or teaching writing, I’m always acutely aware of the pitfalls that … Continue reading →

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The Use of Force Continuum

Posted on August 22, 2014 by

Kate Flora here, writing today about the use of force continuum, which will be explained, a bit, in the Wikipedia excerpts below. Before I became a crime writer, I thought that what writers did was to sit at their desks, exercise … Continue reading →

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When a Writer’s Not Engaged in Her Employment . . .

Posted on August 6, 2014 by

Kate Flora here, feeling very guilty about today’s blog topic. The truth is that since I finished a book a couple weeks ago, I’ve been having a very hard time staying focused on work. I have plenty of work and … Continue reading →

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Weekend Update: January 4-5, 2014

Posted on January 4, 2014 by

Next week at Maine Crime Writers we’ll be featuring posts from Vicki Doudera (Monday), Lea Wait (Tuesday and Wednesday) Barb Ross (Thursday), and John Clark (Friday). In the news department, here’s what’s happening with some of us who blog regularly … Continue reading →

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