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When a Writer Gets a Chance to Read . . .
Kate: One of the questions we’re often asked by audiences at our book events is some variation of The Scent of Rain and Lightning “What are you reading right now?” or “Who is your favorite mystery...
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Real Time vs. Mystery Series Time
by Kaitlyn Dunnett I’ve been thinking a lot lately about real time vs. mystery series time. They aren’t the same. Although in many mystery series it doesn’t matter exactly when the story takes place,...
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Writers and Readers Just Wanna Have Fun…
The Crime Bake celebrates ten years We’re going to let you in on a little secret–writers like to have fun! We spend hours, months, sometimes years at our desks, toiling over draft after draft. We brave...
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My Desert Island Mystery Bookshelf
Kate Flora here, on a rainy day, thinking about weeding my bookshelves, which are double-shelved and groaning. I got distracted, thinking about all the books I can never let go of, and that led me to...
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A Few Thoughts: Page to Screen
Recently, I watched the DVD of the movie version of Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money, a comic caper mystery featuring novice bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. There was a lot of online discussion about...
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Escape to Another Time and Place
Kathy Lynn Emerson/Kaitlyn Dunnett here, today with a blog about books. When I read, I am almost always seeking to escape from reality, both the real world of the nightly news and whatever reality I’m...
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The Endless TBR Pile
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, admitting that I’m a book junkie. I have hundreds of keeper novels on my shelves. I have even more titles on my iPad, some in the Kindle and Nook apps and...
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Why’d They Have to Go and CHANGE Things?
What do the following characters have in common besides the fact that they are all detectives in mystery fiction? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Miss...
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So Many Books, So Little Time
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. The title of this post could as easily apply to books that I’m writing as to those in my to-be-read pile, but today, while in the throes of revisions on two...
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The Joys and Pitfalls of Rereading Old Favorites
part of one keeper shelf Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today musing about rereading books. With so many new titles coming out every year, it’s always possible to find something new to read....
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Some of my Favorite Quotes to do with Writers and Writing
Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. This time around I was drawing a blank for a blog topic until it occurred to me that it has been a while since I offered anything in the way of writing advice....
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