Archive for the ‘Guest Blogs’ Category
Love and Murder
Lauren Carr gave up her career of writing mysteries for television and stage to try her hand at writing novels. She wrote A Small Case of Murder while staying at home with her young son. Her first book, A Small Case of Murder, was named finalist for the Independent Publisher Book Awards. Old Love Dies [...]
February 10, 2012
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When Should You Give Up Your Writing Dream?
June Shaw writes the humorous mystery series featuring feisty Cealie Gunther and her Cajun restaurateur hunk Gil Thurman whom she tries to avoid so she can rediscover herself. June lives along a lazy bayou in south Louisiana. She became a young widow with five children, completed a college degree, and started teaching junior high students. [...]
February 7, 2012
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The Red Herring As Improvisational Plotting Device
J.P. Hansen lives in Minneapolis with his two daughters, Molly and Cecilia. Â The Vanilla Lawyer in the Mayhem Blues is his first mystery. In 2009, he published a literary novel, And Beefheart Saved Craig and his selected poems, Jazz Forms. He makes every effort to age his way gracefully to 50. When writing a mystery, [...]
February 5, 2012
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Inspiration
James Davis is the author of 1930’s Soho crime thriller Noho, published in September 2011 by Wild Wolf Publishing. A keen writer from childhood it was perhaps inevitable that after university James would end up hunched over a keyboard in London’s Fitzrovia, scratching a living from writing freelance magazine commissions whilst working on his fiction. [...]
February 3, 2012
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Seeing What Writers Write And Why
Jeffrey Marks was born in Georgetown, Ohio, the boyhood home of Ulysses S. Grant. Although he moved with his family at an early age, the family frequently told stories about Grant and the people of the small farming community. At the age of twelve, he was introduced to the works of Agatha Christie via her [...]
January 31, 2012
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Do Books Make You Hungry Or Is It Just Me?
Liz Jasper always enjoyed writing, but in college and graduate school dutifully studied things that would make her “marketable.” Fortunately, she loved her stint as a middle school science teacher (most of the time), her time working as a business analyst and still really enjoys her most recent career switch into financial planning. And yet…while [...]
January 27, 2012
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You’ve Changed—Has Your Website?
Returning guest blogger Sunny Frazier, whose first novel in the Christy Bristol Astrology Mysteries, Fools Rush In, received the Best Novel Award from Public Safety Writers Association, is here to remind us all that freshness is not just important for food. sunny69@comcast.net http://www.sunnyfrazier.com http://www.oaktreebooks.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Websites are now as important for establishing identity as a [...]
January 24, 2012
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Setting As Inspiration
Nancy J. Cohen is an award-winning author who writes romance and mysteries. Her popular Bad Hair Day series features hairdresser Marla Shore, who solves crimes with wit and style under the sultry Florida sun. Several titles in this series have made the IMBA bestseller list, while Nancy’s imaginative sci-fi romances have garnered rave reviews. Her [...]
January 22, 2012
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Beginnings and Endings
Lucy Burdette (aka clinical psychologist and mystery author Roberta Isleib) is the author of the Key West food critic mysteries including An Appetite for Murder (NAL.) You can read more at her website www.lucyburdette.com or follow her on Facebook www.facebook.com/lucyburdette and Twitter www.twitter.com/lucyburdette. The happy pooch with Lucy is Tonka. My mother’s not around to [...]
January 20, 2012
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Why I Love Working With Words
Sheila Dalton is the author of several books for children, teens, and adults, including two literary novels, Tales of the Ex Fire-Eater, and The Girl in the Box. Her YA mystery, Trial by Fire, was shortlisted for the Arthur Ellis, Canada’s major crime writers award, and all her children’s books bear the Canadian Children’s Book [...]
January 17, 2012
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