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A Crime Writers Interview: Nichelle Seely

We love telling you all about great new authors we’ve discovered, so once again we bring you a Crime Writers Interview, with Nichelle Seely this time.

Nichelle Seely is a writer and architect living on the Oregon coast with her husband. Born and raised in Oregon, she has also lived and worked in Alaska and Colorado.

She has been writing since she was a child. An eclectic reader, she dips into almost all the fiction genres and also a fair amount of non-fiction.

She loves the ou...

Writers are Just People

by Kassandra Lamb ~ This might seem like I’m stating the obvious, but I’m amazed by how most folks view us writers. Writers are just people, honest we are—we have certain talents, like pretty much everyone has certain talents. But otherwise, we’re just normal folks. We have mates (or ex mates), parents and friends, children and maybe even grandchildren, pets, mortgages… All the usual paraphernalia of being human.

And you might happen to know us from high school or the PTA or because we live d...

Reality in Our Fiction

by Kassandra Lamb ~ We fiction writers invent all kinds of things—make-believe settings, fictitious events, imaginary friends (er, I mean, characters). In other words, we make stuff up. But we are often inspired by real events, and may include bits of reality in our fiction stories.

A tentative draft of a new cover for K.B. Owen’s The Case of the Runaway GirlFor example…

In her historical mystery, The Case of the Runaway Girl, K.B. Owen takes the real life of Senator Shelby Moore Cullo...

Behind the Screen: Creatives Make the Book a Reality

by Liz Boeger ~ In honor of Labor Day, I wrote a post about the “laborers” who work behind the scenes in the indie publishing world—CREATIVES MAKE THE BOOK A REALITY

Creative [krēˈādiv] NOUN creatives (plural noun) 1.  a person who is creative, typically in a professional context.

~ Oxford Dictionary via BING

Dar Albert’s great cover for my new book!

I interviewed the two creatives who made my book a reality: my cover artist DAR ALBERT and interior designer DEBORA LEWIS. 

Did...

The Love/Hate Process of Launching New Books (Plus New Releases)

(NOTE: Our contest winner was Pernette W. Congrats, Pernette!!)

By Kassandra Lamb (on behalf of the group) ~ One of the joys and aggravations of being indie authors is the process of launching new books. It’s a demanding process, both emotionally and logistically. A lot of decisions have to be made, a lot of things to worry about, a lot of little details, etc.

Since we at misterio press have a lot of new releases this season, I asked some of my authors to give me their reactions to the lov...

A Fun Post for Horse Lovers and a Contest Announcement

A scientist by training, a romanticist at heart, award winning author Maggie Toussaint loves to solve puzzles.

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Horse lovers like myself, who also happen to be writers (or readers), will get a kick out of this post by Maggie Toussaint, comparing writing fiction to the gaits of horses.

It’s a fun post!

Dressage Horse or Bucking Bronc?

The gait of a horse can be compared to story writing, editing, and even marketing. During the creation of a story world and its c...

Delicious Deals and Rad Reads (An Off-Week Goodie)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I’ve started a new feature on my own website—reviews of some great reads I’ve encountered recently, usually first-in-series books that are free or discounted.

I called August’s installments delicious deals and rad reads, because all but one of the books involves food. And they all have cats!

Up first, another fantastic first-in-series by PD Workman, who is now very near the top of my favorite authors list. Boy, can this woman write!!

Gluten-Free Murder, An Auntie Cl...

7 Do’s and Don’ts for Writing from Multiple Points of View

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Awhile back, I wrote a post that was intended to be the first in a three-part series, and then I got distracted… But finally here’s Post 2 on writing from multiple points of view.

photo by Joshua Fuller on Unsplash.com

This post is mainly for writers, but readers may find it interesting as well. As I outlined in my last post on this topic, there are sometimes compelling reasons for writing from multiple points of view in a story. But there are some guidelines for how t...

An Off-Week Goodie: Mental Health Resources

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Mental health resources to help us cope!

I know we’re all so ready for the pandemic to be completely behind us. But we’re not there just yet.

So I thought I’d share this article about mental health issues and the pandemic. It’s a lot of statistics which are both interesting and depressing. But scroll down to the end and there are some good mental health resources there.

Mental Health and Covid, by Online Therapy

And check out our Topic Page on Stress Managemen...

A Crime Writers Interview: M.M. Chouinard

Once again, we are delighted to introduce you all to another accomplished mystery writer, M.M. Chouinard.

She is the USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author behind The Vacation, a standalone psychological thriller, and the Detective Jo Fournier series, featuring The Dancing Girls, Taken to the Grave, Her Daughter’s Cry, and The Other Mothers.

She loves animals, coffee, amateur genealogy, and anything to do with Halloween or the zombie apocalypse.

Kass...