Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 160
June 11, 2019
Read When I'm Writing?
Q: Do you read different stuff when you're writing from when you're not? Why?
From Frank Zafiro
At any given time, I've got at least three books going.
One is usually non-fiction, probably history. At present, I'm re-reading a biography of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome by Anthony Everitt. It is a very accessible bit of history, and after Julius Caesar, Octavian/Augustus is probably the most interesting Roman in his era.
The second book is fiction, and frequently crime fiction (I wonde...
From Frank Zafiro
At any given time, I've got at least three books going.
One is usually non-fiction, probably history. At present, I'm re-reading a biography of Augustus, the first emperor of Rome by Anthony Everitt. It is a very accessible bit of history, and after Julius Caesar, Octavian/Augustus is probably the most interesting Roman in his era.
The second book is fiction, and frequently crime fiction (I wonde...
June 10, 2019
Read, Read, Read
Q: Do you read different stuff when you're writing from when you're not? Why?
-from Susan
When I was starting out, I was afraid of inadvertently borrowing from other novels, so I avoided art-related mysteries, for example. I also worried that my “voice” would not be strong enough and that I’d sound like Sue Grafton or Sara Paretsky. Fat chance! For better or worse, my own voice got stronger even in the first draft of the first book, so I let go of my fears. And ten talented writers can cre...
June 7, 2019
A flair for the dram-atic
By Abir
This week's question: What one thing do you wish you could write off against tax, that you (legally) can't. Make your case.
Don’t tell anyone, but I was an accountant in a previous life. In fact I still am on Thursdays…, so you might be forgiven for thinking I’d have a pretty good idea of what’s tax deductible and what’s not. Truth is though, I haven’t a clue. (I never said I was a particularly good accountant. In fact, that’s one of the reasons I’m pretty keen for this writing malarkey...
This week's question: What one thing do you wish you could write off against tax, that you (legally) can't. Make your case.
Don’t tell anyone, but I was an accountant in a previous life. In fact I still am on Thursdays…, so you might be forgiven for thinking I’d have a pretty good idea of what’s tax deductible and what’s not. Truth is though, I haven’t a clue. (I never said I was a particularly good accountant. In fact, that’s one of the reasons I’m pretty keen for this writing malarkey...
June 6, 2019
Neil Sedaka Canta in Italiano
What one thing do you wish you could write off against tax, that you (legally) can't. Make your case.
From Jim
I would like to write off my 2018 trip to Italy to research my next Ellie Stone mystery, TURN TO STONE. The only problem is that I wasn’t able to find the time to make that trip. Maybe I could write off all my previous trips to the paese del sole. Over the past forty years, I must have visited Italy twenty-five or thirty times. In an earlier career, you see, I was a failed academi...
From Jim
I would like to write off my 2018 trip to Italy to research my next Ellie Stone mystery, TURN TO STONE. The only problem is that I wasn’t able to find the time to make that trip. Maybe I could write off all my previous trips to the paese del sole. Over the past forty years, I must have visited Italy twenty-five or thirty times. In an earlier career, you see, I was a failed academi...
June 5, 2019
Perception versus reality
What one thing do you wish you could write off against tax, that you (legally) can't. Make your case.
by Dietrich
Image courtesy of PixabayAccountants likely have all sorts of great stories about people trying to write off all manner of things against their taxes. Since we’re wishing, let’s consider the kind of writer’s income where a major tax write-off would be just the thing, oh yeah, and legal.
Since my stories are set in a variety of locales across North America, I think it’s only reasonabl...
by Dietrich
Image courtesy of PixabayAccountants likely have all sorts of great stories about people trying to write off all manner of things against their taxes. Since we’re wishing, let’s consider the kind of writer’s income where a major tax write-off would be just the thing, oh yeah, and legal.Since my stories are set in a variety of locales across North America, I think it’s only reasonabl...
June 4, 2019
June 3, 2019
The Launch By Brenda Chapman
What one thing do you wish you could write off against tax, that you (legally) can't. Make your case.
Good Monday morning. I must confess that I haven't come up with a tax write off idea for a couple of reasons. The first is that in Canada, we can write off almost anything to do with writing, including magazines and books, trips and conferences.
The second reason for my lack of a good argument is that I spent the weekend getting ready for the Ottawa launch of Turning Secrets, my latest book in...
Good Monday morning. I must confess that I haven't come up with a tax write off idea for a couple of reasons. The first is that in Canada, we can write off almost anything to do with writing, including magazines and books, trips and conferences.
The second reason for my lack of a good argument is that I spent the weekend getting ready for the Ottawa launch of Turning Secrets, my latest book in...
May 31, 2019
The Demon Dog of Father’s Day
Father’s Day is June 16th – so there’s time for you to recommend some crime-themed reading that could be a useful gift idea for dads of different ages, and with different interests…and allow those reading the blog to order it, and get it in time to wrap it!
by Paul D. MarksI thought this time around I’d stick with one author for this Father’s Day recommendation: James Ellroy. Seems that people either love him or hate him, both as a person and his books. I’m (mostly) in the dig him daddio categ...
May 30, 2019
Tie, cufflinks, jokey soap?
Question: Father’s Day is June 16th – so there’s time for you to recommend some crime-themed reading that could be a useful gift idea for dads of different ages, and with different interests…and allow those reading the blog to order it, and get it in time to wrap it!
by Catriona
Ha! For a start, I would never get my dad a book. He has read every day of his life since he learned to read, avidly and voraciously, and so have I but I don't think we've ever read the same thing. Not once.
Ex...
by Catriona
Ha! For a start, I would never get my dad a book. He has read every day of his life since he learned to read, avidly and voraciously, and so have I but I don't think we've ever read the same thing. Not once.
Ex...
May 29, 2019
Daddy's girl... by Cathy Ace
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