Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 145
January 27, 2020
Where In the World is Susan?
Q: The crime and mystery fiction we tend to read can be very US and Europe centric. Where else in the world would you like to see a crime fiction novel set and why?-from Susan
I read a lot of crime fiction books set elsewhere: Laos, Bali, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China, India, Botswana, El Salvador, Thailand, and Ghana* among the countries the crime novels I’ve read recently have been set in.
I’m not sure how much US/Euro centric crime fiction is any more, which is wonderful because...
I read a lot of crime fiction books set elsewhere: Laos, Bali, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, China, India, Botswana, El Salvador, Thailand, and Ghana* among the countries the crime novels I’ve read recently have been set in.
I’m not sure how much US/Euro centric crime fiction is any more, which is wonderful because...
January 24, 2020
Sliding Doors
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
By Abir
I came to writing relatively late. Indeed, I guess it was a bit of a mid-life crisis. I was a thirty-nine-year-old accountant, hurtling towards forty and I had the hope that maybe there might be more to life than accounting.
I’d always wanted to write books but never had the confidence. It’s true that on several occasions over the years I’d actually come up with a...
By Abir
I came to writing relatively late. Indeed, I guess it was a bit of a mid-life crisis. I was a thirty-nine-year-old accountant, hurtling towards forty and I had the hope that maybe there might be more to life than accounting.
I’d always wanted to write books but never had the confidence. It’s true that on several occasions over the years I’d actually come up with a...
January 23, 2020
On Second Thought, Let Me Change That... from James W. Ziskin
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
On Second Thought, Let Me Change That...
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
On Second Thought...
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
From Jim
That was supposed to be my topic today. But since three cool things happened to the 7 Criminal Minds this week, I’ve decided to go rogue and write about something else.
First, huge congratulations to our own Catriona McPherson. Her Scot & Soda was named a finalist for the Lefty for Best Humorous Novel, and her Strangers at the Gate was...
January 22, 2020
Writing crime: easy money the hard way
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
by Dietrich
When I started writing fiction, I wrote short stories and dabbled in different genres, and by the time I found a steady rhythm to my words, I was writing stories inhabited by marginal characters that often ended hip-deep in committing some crime or other. I think my lean toward dark humor had a lot to do with it too, something that I think goes hand in glove...
by Dietrich
When I started writing fiction, I wrote short stories and dabbled in different genres, and by the time I found a steady rhythm to my words, I was writing stories inhabited by marginal characters that often ended hip-deep in committing some crime or other. I think my lean toward dark humor had a lot to do with it too, something that I think goes hand in glove...
January 21, 2020
Why Write Mysteries?
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January 20, 2020
Why Crime Fiction? by Brenda Chapman
What made you decide to write crime & mystery fiction? And if you hadn’t been an author, what would you have been doing?
The simple answer is that I’m writing what I love to read. The first book series that I devoured as a kid were Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five and The Secret Seven. I wanted nothing more than to be a member in a clubhouse that needed a secret password to enter with our time spent solving mysteries during our ‘hols in exotic locations with a parrot named Kiki and a...
January 17, 2020
House of Plots
When it comes to your writing, what is the most important element to you: plot, theme or something else?
by Paul D. Marks
Pease, porridge, plot. Pease, porridge, theme. Pease and porridge in the plot, nine days old. Some like it plot, Some like it theme. Some like it character right on the beam. Okay, I’m a little off the beam here…. But down to business:
Putting the cart before the horse, the bottom line is that everything needs to work together symbiotically, plot, theme, dialogue, pace,...
by Paul D. Marks
Pease, porridge, plot. Pease, porridge, theme. Pease and porridge in the plot, nine days old. Some like it plot, Some like it theme. Some like it character right on the beam. Okay, I’m a little off the beam here…. But down to business:
Putting the cart before the horse, the bottom line is that everything needs to work together symbiotically, plot, theme, dialogue, pace,...
January 16, 2020
Don't Know What You've Got Till It's Done
When it comes to your writing, what is the most important element to you: plot, theme or something else?
By Catriona
What a great question. (Do the readers of this blog know that behind the scenes we Minds take turns to come up with a month's questions at a time?) Well done to whoever dreamed up this one.
For me, it's definitely not "theme". I know that for sure. I don't think I need to know if there's a theme or not, or what it might be. Sometimes I stumble over it in the course of writing but...
By Catriona
What a great question. (Do the readers of this blog know that behind the scenes we Minds take turns to come up with a month's questions at a time?) Well done to whoever dreamed up this one.
For me, it's definitely not "theme". I know that for sure. I don't think I need to know if there's a theme or not, or what it might be. Sometimes I stumble over it in the course of writing but...
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