Maine, Where Your Neighbor Can Be a Mystery
Gerry Boyle here. Just back from a 30-mile bike ride. The miles fly by on the back roads in my part of Maine—woods, farms, cows, dogs (hopefully on chains), last week a near collision with a tractor...
View ArticleFiguring 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,...
View ArticleWhy I Write
Bruce Robert Coffin here, hoping you’re all having a terrific spring. This month I want to discuss the why of writing. People often ask what it is about writing that I enjoy. Why do I do it? Hmm. How...
View ArticleTen Tips for Tuning Up Your Descriptions
Kate Flora: There are so many challenges facing a writer who is trying to craft fiction that sometimes descriptions fall far down the list. By the time an author has developed a cast of characters,...
View ArticleYa know what folks? We’re not making this up…
Three generations of journalism: my grandfather, my father and me. I’d had a whole pile of nice, Mainey, mystery writing topics I was trying to choose from for this blog post. But something else has...
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