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Tempus Fugit

If you could time-travel, what era would you go back to and how long would you stay there? 

I have never been a fan of time travel as a plot device. Somehow, I’m sure that the very fabric of the universe would tear apart if one managed to pull it off. Maybe I’m not smart enough. Or maybe I am. Perhaps I have a “natural instinct for science” like another genius who shall remain nameless (and soulless, for that matter). But I do believe time is linear. “Tempus fugit, and won’t come back aga...

Get back

If you could time-travel, what era would you go back to and how long would you stay there? 
by Dietrich
JMortonPhoto.com & OtoGodfrey.comA science fiction question for a crime writer. If I could get some help on this one, I’d ask Dr. Emmett Brown to rev up that Delorean and drive me through time. There sure are some people I’d like to meet. 
First off, we’d pack along some scotch and coffee and blast back to the late 40s, find Jack Kerouac somewhere on the road when he wa...

No Time Travel for this Woman

By R.J. Harlick
If you could time-travel, what era would you go back to and how long would you stay there? 
I struggled with this week’s question. I would not be considered a history buff. I rarely read books set in any time period other than present day. I think university was the last time I cracked a history book. So, I was stumped over what period in time I would like to experience. 
When living in Russia, I was very intrigued by the czarist years leading up to the revolution and m...

A Step Back in Time by Brenda Chapman

This week's question: If you could time travel, which era would you to back to and how long would you stay there?

An intriguing question this week! My first thought was that I'd go back to the Renaissance era in the 14th century and land in Florence, Italy, to be part of the cultural and social revolution underway. Imagine watching Michelangelo at work painting the Sistine Chapel or talking flying machines with Leonardo da Vinci ...

But upon further reflection,  given my druthers, I'd tran...

Too Much Distraction

We live in a world of TVs at the gas station, split screens, crawl lines, sound notifications, personal message alerts and a thousand other pipes feeding information direct to our over-stimulated brains. What's the place of books in all of that clamor? Do you worry about the future of reading?

by Paul D. Marks

Personally, I hate all those screens everywhere you go. I hate them at the gas station, I doubly hate them in doctors’ offices where I want to read but can’t because I can’t concentrate c...

Beautiful Boredom

Reading - We live in a world of TVs at the gas station, split screens, crawl lines, sound notifications, personal message alerts and a thousand other pipes feeding information direct to our over-stimulated brains. What's the place of books in all of that clamour? Do you worry about the future of reading?
By Catriona
I wish I could say that my reading isn't affected by the jingle and spangle all around, but I know it is. I started reading Wild Fire - Ann Cleeves' final Shetland novel - earlier t...

Calling all creative types... by Cathy Ace

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The Place of Books

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Guest Blogger Rick Homan

I'm happy to welcome guest blogger, Sisters in Crime Norcal member, and debut author Rick Homan. 


Rick's a generous writer, an enthusiastic SinC attendee, and has worked hard on the three novels he's unveiling. He is a member of the writing community at The Mechanics’ Institute Library. He is also  a member of the Guppy chapter of Sisters in Crime. Prior to taking up the craft of crime fiction, he performed as an actor and guitarist in San Francisco and in Philadelphia...

Create Alone, but Write In Partnership

Very few writers are great at absolutely everything from the outset. How did you respond to the opening hand you were dealt? Do you play to your strengths and avoid the rest. If you try to improve, how?

Readers get a bad rap. We consider them jerks when they don't dig our stuff and let us know about it, but tell me this: how happy would you be if the book you've been dying to read for so long arrives with difficulties in the experience, and it could be two years in the publishing pipeline befo...