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When My Muse Surprises Me

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I had a fun time guest posting last week on a blog called Writers Who Kill. I was talking about times when my muse surprises me with some new twist that I didn’t see coming.

Pop over and check out When My Muse Jumps Up and Yells “Surprise!” on WWK.

Here’s a teaser…

We writers, even seat-of-the-pantsers like myself, tend to have a pretty good idea of where a story is going as we’re writing it. And by the time we are midway into a series, we know our protagonists quit...

How Our Past Affects Our Present

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Following up on my post in November about the Fickleness of Human Memory, I thought I’d rerun this post (that was originally a guest post on someone else’s blog) on how our past affects our present experiences. This was a subplot of my recent release, Malignant Memories, when my main character, a female chief of police, realizes how much a memory, which has been lurking in her subconscious for decades, has affected her happiness (or lack thereof).

Today, some people still ...

The Flip Side of the Quest for Work vs Life Balance

by Kassandra Lamb ~ If you’ve been reading our blog for a while now, you know that I have struggled with work vs life balance ever since I started writing fiction. Doing better with this has been at the center of every list of New Year’s goals/resolutions for well over a decade now.

At first I was obsessed with the writing, pounding on my keyboard night and day, sometimes forgetting to eat (or even sleep). Then—once I had a few books published—promoting and running the business end of thi...

Happy Holidays!!

From all of us at misterio press to all of you, our wonderful readers… May you have a truly happy holiday season!!

And here’s some background music to get you in the mood. First just for fun…

And if you’re a Taylor Swift fan, or even if you’re not, this is a pretty cool song…

Happy Holidays and see you all in 2025!!

Misterio press produces an array of quality crime fiction. We post here twice a month, usually on Tuesdays, to alert you to new releases, to enter...

Are You a Bah-Humbug Person? (an encore)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ This seemed like a good time to re-run this post on dealing with the holidays if you are a bah-humbug person.

I hate to say it since I love the holiday myself, but Christmas is not for everyone. Some people just barely tolerate it, some flat out hate it, and some find it incredibly depressing. And the fact that everybody else is so gleefully looking forward to it just makes their lack of pleasure in it that much more pronounced.

If you are a bah-humbug person, or know s...

Best Interview Ever!

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I had a lot of fun last week being interviewed by Lynn Slaughter over at her cyber home. She asks great questions that dig deep. I think it may be my best interview ever!

We get into all kinds of topics, including how my background as a psychotherapist has influenced my writing (in more ways than you might think), how obsessed I was in the early years of my writing journey, and how my protagonist, Chief of Police Judith Anderson, is growing and changing in my newest series...

Happy Thanksgiving!

All of us at misterio press wish all of you a very Happy Thanksgiving!!

May your table be filled with good food and surrounded by loving people!

The post Happy Thanksgiving! appeared first on Misterio Press.

The Fickleness of Human Memory (and a New Release)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ I have a new book coming out today, Malignant Memories. As you might gather from the title, the fickleness of human memory plays a major role in this story of a young woman who has total amnesia for her past and even her own identity.

She finds a business card in her pocket, for one Judith Anderson, Chief of Police of Starling, Florida. She has no idea how the card got there, and she wonders if perhaps she herself is this person. So she walks to the nearest police station ...

Honoring Our Veterans (an encore)

by Kassandra Lamb ~ Today is Veterans’ Day. A day set aside for honoring our veterans and military. But really we should be honoring them every day. There are a ton of reasons why, but I’m gonna pick my top five.

1.   They have a strong sense of duty.

Granted they may have other reasons for joining the armed forces as well, but the men and women who sign on that dotted line do so mostly out of a sense of duty. That is an honorable trait.

(public domain, Wikimedia Commons)2.   They m...

True Halloween Hauntings (an encore) ~ Plus a New Release

by Kassandra Lamb (on behalf of the group) ~ Several years ago, we asked our authors if they knew any true ghost stories about sightings of ghosts or other kinds of true Halloween hauntings. We got more than we bargained for. This post was too good to only put up once, so we’re re-running it this year, with a few updates (especially the first story, which is a real hair-on-the-back-of-your-neck raiser).

For once, we’re not letting our imaginations write the stories. These are true stories we ...