Posts Categorized: writers
Today’s Wise Word Wednesday arrives just before that all-important summer holiday weekend, a time of red-white-and-blue kid bicycle parades, incendiary devices, and drunken men, some of whom are now referred to as “Lefty.” Of course, I’m talking about: The Fourth of July So in the spirit of celebrating “ennials,” I’ve culled through…
I used to picture the author’s life as a very solitary angst-ridden one. You know, the cursed-ivory-tower with gin bottles and cigarette butts strewn on the floor. (Ok, stop laughing, I was raised on mixture of Tennyson and Beat Poetry). Imagine my delight in discovering that friendship is the key component to the writing…
Today’s Fashion Friday post comes to us from mystery author Ellen Byerrum. This lady knows her fashion, and I’m so lucky to have her here today. Ellen is the creator of the Crimes of Fashion series, featuring Lacey Smithsonian, a Washington, DC fashion reporter, where the circumstances and the solutions hinge upon fashion know-how. The…
Malice Domestic 23: what made it special? Was it the planning, the cool panel topics (check Wed’s post for some highlights), the book riches, the hotel accommodations? While all of these helped make it an enjoyable convention, Malice Domestic would have been nothing without the wonderful people who attended. I was fortunate to meet a…
I survived Malice Domestic. Sounds like it should be a t-shirt from an amusement park’s thrill ride, doesn’t it? In a way, it was a thrill ride (not including the lurching, glass-walled hotel elevators that made me a little woozy). I met big-time authors, brand-new authors (there’s a special breakfast for them to introduce themselves…
Malice Domestic 23 is this coming weekend… …and as a first-timer (to any writers’ convention), I’m a bit nervous. Out come the lists and the advance preparations: what to wear, what to buy to wear, what to read ahead of time so I can talk intelligently with authors. Laptop? Business cards? (Do I put “writer”…
