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Part III: Forgiveness, the Final Letting Go

by Kassandra Lamb ~ In Part I of this series, I talked about several steps in the process of forgiving someone who has done you harm, including examining your hurt and anger on a deeper level, resolving the conflict with the other person if possible, venting your emotions, and making sure you’re safe from future harm. In Part II, we focused on how the other person might react and what to do if they won’t take responsibility for their actions. And now…the final letting go.

Today’s post is abou...

Things We Love About Spring!

by Kassandra Lamb (on behalf of the whole gang) ~ I figured we’d take a break this week from the Forgiveness posts (Part III coming next week) with a more lighthearted post about Spring. So I asked the other misterio press authors what they love (or hate) about Spring. Here are their answers:

Vinnie Hansen:

The flowers!! (A rather short answer, until you see her garden. This pic is definitely worth a thousand words.)

Candace J. Carter:

I love the blooming flowers and budding tr...

When They Won’t Apologize ~ Forgiveness Part II

by Kassandra Lamb ~ In Part I of this series, I talked about several steps in the process of forgiving someone who has done you harm. They include identifying the deeper significance of our hurt and anger, resolving the conflict with the other person if possible, venting those emotions, and making sure we are safe from future harm from that person. But what if they won’t apologize?

photo by Felix Koutchinski on Unsplash.com (words added)When They Won’t Apologize

Two of the most underus...

Forgiveness: It’s More Complicated Than You May Think

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I recently went to a spiritual retreat that was centered around forgiveness. I unloaded some of my own emotional baggage, but I was also reminded that this thing called forgiveness, it’s more complicated than most people think it is.

photo by Alex Shute on Unsplash.com

(This is Part 1 of a multi-part series. I don’t know how long it will be yet, because, well…it’s complicated. Probably 3 parts.)

What we think Forgiveness is vs. what it really is.

It’s easy to ass...

2 Tasty Off-Week Tidbits: The Writer’s in Charge, Right? and How Not to Write a Police Procedural

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’ve got two great off-week tidbits for you all today. Last week, I was a guest on Barb Taub’s delightful blog. I had a lot of fun with this post, The Writer’s in Charge, Right? It talks about how characters take on a life of their own, and sometimes wrestle the reins right out of the writer’s hands.

Barb paired my post with her review of Lethal Assumptions, my latest release. And Barb being Barb, the review is full of her fantastic humor.

And the same day that she...

A Crime Writers’ Interview with Glenda Carroll

We love introducing you, our readers, to other crime fiction writers whose work we have enjoyed. So today, we bring you our Crime Writers’ Interview with Glenda Carroll, author of the Trisha Carson mysteries. Our own Vinnie Hansen has read her latest release, Dead Code, and loved it!

If you want to find Glenda Carroll, she’ll be in, on, or under water—and writing about it. She understands water sports on a very personal level since she swims, surfs and sails. Glenda was a long time sp...

Two Off-Week Goodies, Plus a Fun New Release!

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’ve had a lot of fun the last few weeks, doing guest appearances at various authors’ blogs, introducing my new C.o.P. on the Scene series. So I thought I’d share the fun with you all with these two “off-week goodies.”

First up is my guest post earlier in February, at Vicki Batman’s cyberhome.

Her blog is titled Handbags, Books and Whatever, and I got to gush about my favorite handbag. It’s so pretty and it has So. Many. Pockets.

Then, yesterday, I was visit...

How I Learned to Write by the Seat of My Pants

by Kassandra Lamb ~ The story of how I discovered I should write by the seat of my pants is a good lesson in two things—everybody is different and trust your instincts.

Like most of us, I was taught in English class to write outlines before starting an essay or story. So for years, I dutifully wrote outlines of stories, and then shoved the outline into a drawer and never finished the story.

There was one story, in particular, that periodically insisted I write it. It was about platonic...

Writing Romantic Suspense: Sugar and Spice and Things Not So Nice

Happy Valentine’s Day!! This seemed like an appropriate time to do an encore presentation of a post Kirsten Weiss and I wrote a few years ago, about the challenges and joys of writing romantic suspense.

by Kassandra Lamb and Kirsten Weiss ~ Both of us have ventured a bit into the realm of romantic suspense lately. Since we already had romances as subplots in many of our mysteries, we thought it shouldn’t be that hard to make the romance a bit more central and call it romantic suspense.

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How Important Is One’s Favorite Childhood Author? Very!!

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I did a blog tour recently for my new release, Lethal Assumptions, for which I was asked to provide several short blog posts. One suggested topic was writing about a favorite childhood author.

We authors get that question a lot—who was your favorite childhood author? And I never have trouble answering it—Laura Ingalls Wilder. But this time I asked myself WHY she has remained my all-time favorite childhood author.

I read a ton of books as a kid, always had my nose stuck...