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An Attitude of Gratitude

How do you decide who to acknowledge and who to dedicate a book to, and have you ever had an awkward moment in making an “in” or “out” decision?

by Paul D. Marks

Only the best doctors for me.Before I get to today’s question:

I’ve been on forced hiatus for a couple of months now. I want to thank Cathy Ace for helping find replacement posters to fill my slots in that time and to also thank the various replacement posters. 

Towards the very end of October I wasn’t feeling well. Could barely stand up. L...

Awkward stalkers and how to outwit them. by Catriona

 How do you decide who to acknowledge and who to dedicate a book to, and have you ever had an awkward moment in making an “in” or “out” decision? 

The early dedications were easy: Mum and Dad in book one, my husband in book 2, then my sisters, my mother-in-law, my three dearest friends, by which time I had moved to the US and restocked with scads more dearest friends and was in no danger of running out. Then came the years on the Sisters in Crime board, the deepening friendships across the myst...

For You... by Cathy Ace

How do you decide who to acknowledge and who to dedicate a book to, and have you ever had an awkward moment in making an “in” or “out” decision?

Possibly my most cryptic Dedication...explained below...It might seem a little late, but – since this is my first post of the year – I’m going to take this chance to wish you and yours a healthy and peaceful 2021!

That done, I’ll now confess something: I had to open each book I’ve written to “remind myself” to whom they’d been dedicated! Now that I’ve “...

This one is for...

How do you decide who to acknowledge and who to dedicate a book to, and have you ever had an awkward moment in making an “in” or “out” decision?

From Frank

There are really two possible reasons to dedicate a book to someone. Or rules. Let's call them rules.

Rule Number One is because someone lent themselves to the book's completion. An editor or friend who got the story over the hump, or helped flesh out a character, or discover the secret that lies at the heart of every good book. Sometimes these ...

I Want to Thank.....

  

 

Q: How do you decide who to acknowledge and who to dedicate a book to, and have you ever had an awkward moment in making an “in” or “out” decision?

 

-from Susan

 

I looked forward to writing the dedication to my first book because I wanted so much to thank my partner Tim, who died only a few months before I found an agent. He had been so supportive, such a cheerleader and believer in my ability to get a novel in print. Less than two weeks before he died, he said, in front of a bunch of friends, ...

A Time and Place For Everything

by Abir 

If you could set a book you haven’t written yet anywhere in the world, at any time in history, among societies other than your own, where would you choose and why?

A Happy New Year to you all from a wintry, locked-down England. We enter the new year in a state of high tension on both sides of the Atlantic, with the virus seemingly raging out of control once more, but this time there's tangible hope on the horizon, because he'll be gone in thirteen days. Still, it's a good time to for a bi...

Where Are the Snows of Yesteryear? from James W. Ziskin

If you could set a book you haven’t written yet anywhere in the world, at any time in history, among societies other than your own, where would you choose and why?

This week’s question is a fun one for me, maybe because I already write historical fiction. My Ellie Stone series is set in the early 1960s. Through seven novels, Ellie has solved murders from New York City to upstate New York to Hollywood to Florence, Italy. And my next novel is set in 1975 India. I also recently had a great experienc...

Close to home

 

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If you could set a book you haven’t written yet anywhere in the world, at any time in history, among societies other than your own, where would you choose and why?

by Dietrich

I come up with an idea for a story, then I dream up the characters. After that comes place and time, and that boils down to what suits that particular story. 

There are times in history that are of interest to me, and I’d likely lean that way. I’ve set a couple of stories on the Great Plains during the dus...

Where, When ...and Who

Terry Shames here. This week we are answering the question: If you could set a book you haven’t written yet anywhere in the world, at any time in history, among societies other than your own, where would you choose and why? 
 So many places, so many times--and so little time! What comes to my mind first is to write an alternate history—sci fi of a certain kind. But honestly, although I’ve always thought it would be fun to write science fiction (the first book I ever wrote was sci-fi), I’m not sur...

Time Travelling

If you could set a book you haven’t written yet anywhere in the world, at any time in history, among societies other than your own, where would you choose and why?

Happy New Year! Brenda Chapman here with the first blogpost of 2021. Let's hope this year is better than last, and the pandemic draws to an end. We're currently in lockdown in Ottawa but this feels like a better place with the vaccines being rolled out and hopes high for life to return closer to normal soon.

This month's question is a t...