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Margaritas and Mysteries

You've invited an author (living or dead - fantasy okay) to dinner and you're nervous. What will you serve that you think will make her or him your greatest admirer?

by Paul D. Marks

Hmm. Well, I haven’t had too many dinners with stratospherically famous authors, but judging from what I’ve read about them, I’d serve a long list of various booze, including absinthe – even though today’s absinthe isn’t what they might have been used to on the Left Bank in the 1920s. I also say this because I have...

I'm his number one fan

QUESTION: You've invited an author (living or dead - fantasy okay) to dinner and you're nervous. What will you serve that you think will make her or him your greatest admirer?
I don't think I'd invite Mr King (pause to curtsy) to dinner. He must be sick of fans pecking at him. But if he happened to meet with a mishap while passing my house, even though it's at the dead end of a dead-end dirt-road, and if he was without his entourage for some reason, or a working mobile phone, I wouldn't make h...

A meal fit for a Queen (of mystery!)... by Cathy Ace

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Dinner with Ian Rankin - RM Greenaway

You've invited an author to dinner and you're nervous. What will you serve that you think will make her or him your greatest admirer?
I am grateful for this fun question, as the answer will be simple. I've just got back from couch-surfing for two weeks on the coast, which was exciting, but hectic too, and my head's still in a bit of a spin.

The simple answer is I'll invite Ian Rankin, and serve haggis and stout. The stout is not a problem, but I don't have a clue how to make haggis. I'm hoping...

RSVP

Q: You’ve invited an author (living or dead – this is a hypothetical question) to your house for dinner and now you’re nervous. Describe the meal you want to serve that will impress her or him so much you become new best friends.
- from Susan

I’d be too intimidated to invite James Joyce, frankly. He’d be brilliant, I’d be like, “More soup?”
Annie Lamott is all good cheer and humor, but it’s hard to keep up your side of the conversation when you just want her to keep entertaining you. S...

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

From Jim

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?












If you had just finished your first novel in 2018, given all the changes that have happened in the publishing world, which path would you choose to publication and why?
Since Susan, Robin, and Dietrich have already covered this topic brilliantly, I feel I have little to add. So I’m not going to write about publishing paths. Instead, I’ll bore you with some musings on language, specifically foreign borrowings.

English has borrowed many words from other ...

From JimBrother, Can You Spare A Dime?If you had just fin...

From Jim

Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?












If you had just finished your first novel in 2018, given all the changes that have happened in the publishing world, which path would you choose to publication and why?
Since Susan, Robin, and Dietrich have already covered this topic brilliantly, I feel I have little to add. So I’m not going to write about publishing paths. Instead, I’ll bore you with some musings on language, specifically foreign borrowings.

English has borrowed many words from other ...

A library in your pocket

If you had just finished your first novel in 2018, given all the changes that have happened in the publishing world, which path would you choose to publication and why?
by Dietrich Kalteis
My first novel Ride the Lightning was signed in 2013 and published a year later, so I’m still fairly new to the game in that sense, but I’ve been writing stories since the days of Wite-Out. And I remember getting plenty of ink on my fingers from self-correction ribbons before that first Mac came into my life....

A No-Brainer or not…

By R.J. Harlick
If you had just finished your first novel in 2018, given all the changes that have happened in the publishing world, which path would you choose to publication and why?
An interesting question and also one that could require a total relook at my writing were I to be setting out on my writing journey today. 
Basically, I would have two major decisions to make. Should I set my mystery novel in Canada or elsewhere? Do I want to publish the book myself as an independen...

Which Path to Publishing?

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