Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 141

Pride, satisfaction, thankfulness

by Abir
What moment of personal accomplishment within the writing realm made you most proud?

Hi folks. 
What a week its been. The world has changed utterly since last Friday. S*!t just got real, as you North Americans say. I hope youre all keeping well and taking care of your loved ones, and that the financial repercussions arent too severe.
As for me and my family, weve been gradually battening down the hatches. Our younger son has his last day of school today after which the...

All Glove, No Bat from James W. Ziskin

From Jim

What moment of personal accomplishment within the writing realm made you most proud?
A happy topic this week. And a tricky one. We have been asked to brag about our writing accomplishments, which is fun. In doing so, however, we run the risk of coming across as smug or self-satisfied if we handle it clumsily. So, with humility as my guiding principle, here I go...

I will boast about the thirteen award nominations Ive received over the past six yearsfive Anthonys, four Leftys, two...

High Points

What moment of personal accomplishment within the writing realm made you most proud?
by Dietrich
I dont like to think of it as pride, because that means a fall could come next. Lets call it a high point. And as far as writing goes, the first of these came when I found myself in a position to leave the nine-to-five grind behind and finally follow a dream to write full-time. It took a long time to get there, but it felt pretty good when it did.
I strapped myself in and started writing every day,...

Personal Accomplishments, Writing and Other

What moment of personal accomplishment within the writing realm made you most proud? Outside of writing?
Terry Shames here:
Is there ever a feeling like seeing your first book in print? Mind you, this was not my first book. I wrote six novels and about twenty pieces of novels before I got the call that rocked my world: An editor loved my book and wanted to publish it. He was even willing to give me money for it! And then Carolyn Hart, an author I had long admired when she was asked at Malice...

The Shining Moments by Brenda Chapman

What moment of personal accomplishment within the writing realm made you most proud? Outside of writing?
There have been a few moments of pride in my writing journey.
The first would be when Canadian Living, a national magazine, printed my short story True North way back in August 2001. This was my first submission, the first time I signed a contract, and the first time I saw my name in print in a bona fide magazine. Such elation!
This was followed a few years later by the...

The Beat of a Different Drum

What book(s) surprised you by the impact it had on you?

by Paul D. Marks

Theres been many books over the years that have had an impact on me one way or another.
And I know that a lot of people were influenced by Catcher in the Rye, but I didnt read it till I was an adult. Others were inspired by Tolkien, but Ive never read him. Sorry, Im just not into fantasy. Music had and still has a great influence on me, as does Edward Hoppers art, but that isnt the question.

So, if I was going to pick a...

Danny Glick at the Upstairs Window.

Reading - What books surprised you by the impact they had on you? - by Catriona
Well,Wolf Hall gave me a major crush on Thomas Cromwell. Didn't see that coming. 

Hilary Mantel's completion of the trilogy is out now. I could buy it today at Sacramento airport and read it on the plane to Left Coast Crime, San Diego. I need a book to read on the plane and at the con because I made a shocking discovery yesterday. I don't own a copy of my planned reading choice: Stephen King's The Stand. How is...

SURPRISE! I wasn't expecting...this... by Cathy Ace

Reading - What book(s) surprised you by the impact it/they had on you?


I’ve thought about this one long, and hard. It’s so difficult to mention one title among so many. What is an impact, after all? Being stunned by how terribly disappointed I was after all the hype? Being astonished by the fluidity of the prose, but the vacuity of the message? Being transported by the humour…or the energy of the telling of a wonderful tale? For me, here, I shall tell you about the impact of JOY! The best...

Hoisted On My Own Petard

What book(s) surprised you by the impact it had on you? 
- From Frank

Followers of this blog probably know that the questions are the rotating responsibility of the contributing members. After joining 7 Criminal Minds last year, my first go at providing the questions came this month. So if you like the questions all month long, know that I wrote them. If you don't like them, know that I stole them from Jim. Or Cathy. Yeahhhhh, that's the ticket.

So as I looked at the question I wrote for...

No Human Involved

Q: What book(s) surprised you by the impact it had on you?
-from Susan
A: So many, for so many different reasons, at different times in my life. Maybe the thrust of the question is crime fiction books, so I’ll go with that. Casting about in my mental bookshelves for something that fits…
I know! Barbara Seranella’s first mystery, NO HUMAN INVOLVED. Let me quote the review by Poisoned Pen, which gives readers who don’t know her work a sense of the book: “Every so often a first novel is...