Welcome to flashback Friday. Today is a quick snippet of three articles from The New York Times, recounting burglaries gone wrong, often to comedic effect. The entries span the years 1886-1899, and in two of the accounts, a plucky woman comes to the rescue. Enjoy! 1 person likes this post. Like Unlike
Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday, where the water is above-average, the topics are bubbly, and the company is sparkling. This week’s topic: You know you’re a mystery fan if…. here are some symptoms indicators of the disorder preference Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Welcome to Masters of Mystery Monday, where each week we feature a fictional detective and examine his or her unique contribution to mystery fiction. This week: Donald Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown Be the first to like. Like Unlike
Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday, where the water is above-average, the topics are bubbly, and the company is sparkling. Even though the “official” autumnal equinox isn’t until Friday, today’s topic is: Things to Fall for in other words, things we love or delight in, that make it all worthwhile Be the first to like.…
You’ve finished your first novel. Woo-hoo! Now you wait…for an agent, a publisher, or what have you (a lot of us are in the “what have you” phase). What’s next? Start on the next book. That’s a piece of advice I had heard over and over: Don’t stagnate. Keep the momentum going. Be the…
Writing Reflections I love my keyboard. It seems so long ago (yes, high school was very long ago) since I grudgingly, and awkwardly, did my touch-typing exercises at the typewriter: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy hen… Something like that. Now, after years of composing at the keyboard, my fingers barely…
Yay! It’s Watercooler Wednesday, where the posts are loosely based around a theme, something to spark the imagination and get that community “water-cooler” feeling going. We all need help getting over hump-day, after all. Hospitals have been coming to mind this week: it seems that lately a lot of friends (including blogging buddies) have been…
Ahh, Labor Day weekend. The last gasp of summer leisure. ALL of the children going back to school. Parents have been kissing college freshmen goodbye and returning to quieter homes (mostly). It’s the first weekend of college football, too, when many of us ransack our closets for those college colors to wear, either in front of the…
