Barbara Fradkin's Blog, page 183
September 20, 2017
Meet the Author
I'm not really here today, Dear Reader. I am currently sitting in a hospital room at Banner Desert Hospital after my long-suffering husband has undergone his eighth operation in eight years. While not life-threatening, he is having more body parts removed. Truth is he does not have that many left. I'll be leaving him in the hospital later on this morning (Thursday) to drive to the Arizona
September 19, 2017
Libraries as inspiration
This past weekend, I had the good fortune to be an invited author to do a reading at the Halifax Word on the Street Festival. For its size, Halifax, located in a spectacular harbour on the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia, punches above its weight in terms of cultural and artistic activity, and also in post-secondary institutions. There are 400,000 people in Halifax and six universities. That's a
How do you get ahead these days without lying — or at least stretching the truth?
by Rick Blechta
Okay. I promise to stop writing blog posts about Bouchercon (but I may be lying — or stretching the truth).
Being so, well, intimately involved in the whole process of mounting a production like this through being the designer and layer-outer of the conference program book, I know where all the bodies are hidden. Even including Kathleen Fraser, its very able editor, I’m probably
Okay. I promise to stop writing blog posts about Bouchercon (but I may be lying — or stretching the truth).
Being so, well, intimately involved in the whole process of mounting a production like this through being the designer and layer-outer of the conference program book, I know where all the bodies are hidden. Even including Kathleen Fraser, its very able editor, I’m probably
September 17, 2017
Too Smart For Our Own Good
Mapping DNA was one of the smartest things scientists have ever done. It has been a gift to the criminal justice system, freeing the wrongly accused and convicting perpetrators even when it's a cold case many years old.
Eye witness evidence is notoriously unreliable; no two witnesses will ever describe the same event in precisely the same way - and indeed, if they did it would be evidence
Eye witness evidence is notoriously unreliable; no two witnesses will ever describe the same event in precisely the same way - and indeed, if they did it would be evidence
September 15, 2017
Guest Post: Kathleen Valenti
Please welcome fellow Henery Press author Kathleen Valenti to Type M. I met Kathleen at Malice Domestic last year and had a lovely conversation with her. Her first novel, PROTOCOL, featuring new college graduate Maggie O’Malley was recently released. You can find out more about Kathleen at https://www.kathleenvalenti.com.Take it away Kathleen...
Message in a Novel
by Kathleen Valenti
Message in a Novel
by Kathleen Valenti
September 14, 2017
The New Mystery
The other day I had a lengthy wait in the post office line. Most of my fellow detainees were gazing at their cell phones.
Lines used to be a great place to people-watch. I could tell a lot by the expression on the face of a person forced to be idle and moderately civilized as we edged up in the queue. The varying postures are still revealing. Posture always has been.
There was little to
Lines used to be a great place to people-watch. I could tell a lot by the expression on the face of a person forced to be idle and moderately civilized as we edged up in the queue. The varying postures are still revealing. Posture always has been.
There was little to
September 12, 2017
We Love Libraries!
I started a new volunteer position recently with Sisters in Crime. It’s been about 6 years since I completed 6 years on the board of the Los Angeles chapter of Sisters in Crime. During those years I served in several positions, including a brief stint as chapter president, and co-chaired the 2011 California Crime Writers Conference. To say that I was tired after all that would be an
The zen of cooking and writing
by Rick Blechta
We’re just pulling into the finish line of our annual canning, pickling and preserving binge. It's a lot of work, but when you can go down to your cellar in the depths of winter and pull out a jar of chopped, super-ripe San Marzano tomatoes to make a pasta sauce of great flavour, that’s a real blessing — as well as great eating.
But this isn’t a post for my food blog.
This past
We’re just pulling into the finish line of our annual canning, pickling and preserving binge. It's a lot of work, but when you can go down to your cellar in the depths of winter and pull out a jar of chopped, super-ripe San Marzano tomatoes to make a pasta sauce of great flavour, that’s a real blessing — as well as great eating.
But this isn’t a post for my food blog.
This past
September 10, 2017
Are we losing the plot?
P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm;The other day, I heard
best selling author Robert Harris being interviewed on the radio. He
questioned whether the novel had a future in the face of a perceived
declining attention span in readers, arguing that stuff like
online streaming and box sets are offering more dynamic alternatives to
novels. “A box set takes 10 or 12 hours to view, and that’s the
same
best selling author Robert Harris being interviewed on the radio. He
questioned whether the novel had a future in the face of a perceived
declining attention span in readers, arguing that stuff like
online streaming and box sets are offering more dynamic alternatives to
novels. “A box set takes 10 or 12 hours to view, and that’s the
same
September 8, 2017
Body on Baker Street: A Sherlock Holmes Bookshop Mystery
By Vicki Delany
Ta Da!
On Tuesday Sept 12, Crooked Lane Books will release the
second in my Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series,
Body on Baker Street. As befits a
series set in a bookstore, this one is about a visiting author who comes to an
unfortunate end face down in a pile of books awaiting her signature.
Fear not fellow Typists! I had no one in mind when I wrote
that character.
Ta Da!
On Tuesday Sept 12, Crooked Lane Books will release the
second in my Sherlock Holmes Bookshop series,
Body on Baker Street. As befits a
series set in a bookstore, this one is about a visiting author who comes to an
unfortunate end face down in a pile of books awaiting her signature.
Fear not fellow Typists! I had no one in mind when I wrote
that character.
