Jennifer Chase's Blog, page 46
October 29, 2012
What’s This I Hear About Type A Personalities?
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I don’t think anyone has not heard someone described as a Type A Personality in movies, a family member, or someone you work with on a regular basis. Okay, I’m not immune to this personality type label. I admit it, I’m driven, focused and I have goals for both my personal and business ventures, and…. I can be intense at times.
So is this a good or bad thing?
Well, I wanted to dig a little bit further to find out where this Type A Personality Type originated because...
October 26, 2012
Author Updates & Upcoming Rockin’ Halloween Interview
I wanted to convey a heartfelt thank you to everyone for the amazing support for my EMILY STONE SERIES. Rest assured, Emily’s next huge adventure in DEAD BURN is about wrapped up and ready to experience. That is, if you can handle an arson serial killer searching for victims by their committed sins, a ruthless hit man, and a little more of Emily’s rambunctious friend Jordan!
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I will be a guest on Blog Talk Radio THE WRITE STUFF with host and Best Selling Author Ashely Fontainne on HALLOWEEN...
October 24, 2012
Violent Death of Infant Results in Only a Ninety-Day Sentence
How much prison time should be considered appropriate for the murder of an infant? Yes, there must be consideration for intent, maliciousness, premeditation of this act . . . but what is the ballpark? Five years? Ten years? Twenty? Maybe life?
Well, how about ninety days in prison for the death of a six-month-old girl? That is the sentence handed down to a teen dad in Colorado after his actions were shown to have caused the death of his daughter.
Nineteen-year-old Dylan Kuhn originally told aut...
October 22, 2012
Can Our Furry Companions Enhance Genre Fiction?
It’s no secret that I love animals and I share my household with two Labrador retrievers and two cats. My top dog “Sarge” (photo above) is enjoying a nice swim at the beach. Life just wouldn’t be the same without some type of furry companion included in my day-to-day routines.
It actually got me thinking about how animals and pets can influence a novel. It can be any type of genre, like mystery, romance, and even sci-fi where a fido-type of character can be integrated to enhance a character or...
October 19, 2012
Violent Crimes Up for the First Time in Nearly Two Decades
It is sometimes difficult to believe, based on the horrible stories that get covered non-stop on the 24-hour news cycle, but violent crime actually has been decreasing for about two decades. The incidences of assaults and rapes and robberies have shown a downward slope since 1993. From 1993 through 2010, violent crime in the United States decreased by 65%. That’s remarkable and a testament to better trained law enforcement, effective laws and sentencing, and many other factors. Unfortunately,...
October 17, 2012
Why Do We Cringe at Terrible Sounds?
Fingernails slowly dragged down a chalkboard, a shrieking woman, or that high-pitch sound of a drill makes us cringe on the spot and cower in disgust. Even pressing your hands against your ears does not seem to help. Okay, I admit it, I like to find weird and unusual science stuff in addition to my crime scene forensics. And I like to share!
Have you ever thought about why we cringe at such terrible sounds?
Is our brain programmed to make us shrink from these types of noises?
According to a stu...
October 13, 2012
31 Things That Scare Me
It’s the scariest month of the year and I thought I’d keep up with the yearly tradition and post what actually scares a criminologist and crime fiction author.
Now, on to my list. Just in case you were wondering…
1. People text messaging and surfing the Internet when they drive.
2. Cleaning the cat litter box.
3. Men who wear socks with sandals.
4. People listed with three first names.
5. Children that know more about technology than I do.
6. Old coffee.
7. The rapidly increasing size of the ordinary...
October 11, 2012
Plumber Helps to Capture Would-Be Burglar
With the protagonist in a series of novels I have written being a woman who takes the law into her own hands by hunting down predators and bringing them to justice, I enjoy finding stories of “everyday” men and women who have decided to act when they see crime happening. While I never advocate putting yourself in grave danger or accelerating an already dangerous situation, it is nice to know that there are plenty of people out there who want to see the bad guys get caught. Among these people...
October 8, 2012
So You Think You Can Be a CSI?
I’ve been deep in the trenches with my next book and a little bit preoccupied, but I wanted to post something fun to test your CSI knowledge. It’s been a tough process creating Emily Stone’s current adventure in Dead Burn, but rest assured it will be out before the holidays.
There are many aspects that make up forensics and crime scene study. Some are more technical and scientific, while others are just standard common sense, but everything works with one another as an intricate puzzle piece t...
October 5, 2012
Husband Gets Violent over Politics
It is that time again. Every four years the chosen candidates from each political party take to our television screens and county fairs, walk onto debate stages, and fly across the country repeatedly in order to convince voters that he (or occasionally she) should be the president of the United States.
I don’t really discuss politics on this blog and have no intention of starting, but there was a moment this week when politics and crime intersected. (I know . . . some would say that happens ev...
