Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 187

Because Something is Happening Here But You Don’t Know What it is, Do You, Mister Jones?

Free Speech Week -- in which each Criminal Mind gets to choose their topic.

by Paul D. Marks

Since we get to write about anything we want this week, I thought I’d revisit a piece I originally did for another blog. I’ve changed it up a little, but the sentiment still applies and concerns me greatly.

One of the things that scares me most as a writer is an illiterate society. Not only illiterate in the sense of people being unable to read and write. But “illiterate” in the sense that, as a society,...

Marvellous Mascara-melting Malice (or Party on Cloud Nine)

Since it's free speech week, I'ma completely indulge myself with a Malice round-up. It was the 30th birthday of Malice Domestic - the convention that celebrates traditional mysteries - this last weekend in Bethesda, MD. And what a weekend it was! I was honoured to be the toastmaster and thrilled at who I was asked to toast.



But. There was another element to the Malice weekend this year. Malice always honours someone who has left us and it's usually a writer who's been gone long enough that the...

To confer or not confer, that is the question...by Cathy Ace

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Foot Free & Care Loose - RM Greenaway

This week I’m scrambling. I have till April 30 at midnight to get my last-chance edits done on Book IV, and I’ll be chipping away at it till 11:59. I’m also writing a blog for my publisher, along with this post, and prepping for an eight-hour drive to Vancouver, with two events in the works there, and since I’ve got fears about public speaking, that’s like a little cloud over my head. I’m starting to sweat about getting Book V written by deadline, and my income taxes are behind, as always. I...

Publishing Options Today

Free Speech Week
-from Susan
I’m at yet another crossroads with my writing, which prompts me to wonder: Is it time to re-consider the alternative to traditionally published books?
I have not yet self-published, but I’ve had large and small publishers, successes and set-backs, seen my books picked up, passed along, published in many formats, and passed over. I have two series out right now, the Dani O’Rourke contemporary mysteries set in San Francisco’s art world; and a French village mystery ser...

Unfinished Misreads, with Danny Gardner

"Man, I got so many books, y'all don't even know."
I write a lot, but I read, too and I'd like to get credit for all the reading I do despite having so much writing to do, because that'll make me seem more committed to writing by folks who have the time to sit around and judge people for not reading while writing because that seems cool. Below are my most current crime fiction reads, except I couldn't really finish them on account I have another blog thing I do and reading can be hard sometime...

Mother Goose Bumps

Despite literary fiction genre bias, elements of crime fiction make it into literary fiction all the time. Write a mystery/crime-style synopsis of a novel that was crime fiction in all but name. (Bonus points for cheekiness.)

From Jim




Violent passions, perversion, and murder in one spine-tingling collection. Mother Goose offers a tour de force of psychological suspense, domestic tragedy, and good old-fashion mystery in her latest collection of nursery rhymes. Alternately tugging at the heartstr...

Crossing the lines

Reading: Despite literary fiction genre bias, elements of crime fiction make it into literary fiction all the time. Write a mystery/crime-style synopsis of a novel that was crime fiction in all but name. (Bonus points for cheekiness.)
by Dietrich Kalteis
I’m going to stray off this question a bit and instead share some thoughts on genre. 
A novel’s prime focus determines it’s genre, which is a way to classify and to give readers the broad strokes of what to expect. The danger is a reader mi...

A dark, one-of-a-kind, psychological thriller...

By R.J. Harlick

Despite literary fiction genre bias, elements of crime fiction make it into literary fiction all the time. Write a mystery/crime-style synopsis of a novel that was crime fiction in all but name. 
Psychopathic rabbit lures young girl down dark threatening hole.
Alice In Wonderland is a psychological thriller on steroids. It conjures up the worst the netherworld has to offer, poisoned food, magic mushrooms, nefarious creatures too human-like to be real, a psychotic tea pa...

It's All a Mystery

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