Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 214
April 19, 2017
Promises, promises...Cathy Ace
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April 18, 2017
So. Many. Books.
"With thousands of new titles being published every day, what do you do to try to raise your new book above the fray and catch the eye of readers?"
This week I am grateful to fellow Canadian crime writer SG Wong for stepping in to share her perspective on the topic of the week.SG Wong writes the Lola Starke series of novels and the Crescent City short stories, written in the tradition of the hard-boiled detective genre, with two-fingers’ worth of noir and a liberal sprinkling of magic and ghos...
This week I am grateful to fellow Canadian crime writer SG Wong for stepping in to share her perspective on the topic of the week.SG Wong writes the Lola Starke series of novels and the Crescent City short stories, written in the tradition of the hard-boiled detective genre, with two-fingers’ worth of noir and a liberal sprinkling of magic and ghos...
April 17, 2017
Making Your Book Stand Out
Q: With thousands of new titles being published every day, what do you do to try to raise your new book above the fray and catch the eye of readers?
- from Susan
A: Anything and everything as long as it isn’t annoying, offensive, or negative.
Shameless promotion: my granddaughter displaying my previous book in 2016.
Really, I have no expert advice or magic tricks and I’m not sure who has them. This question has come up in one form or another before, and I’m no wiser now than when I first answered...
- from Susan
A: Anything and everything as long as it isn’t annoying, offensive, or negative.
Shameless promotion: my granddaughter displaying my previous book in 2016.Really, I have no expert advice or magic tricks and I’m not sure who has them. This question has come up in one form or another before, and I’m no wiser now than when I first answered...
April 13, 2017
Oh, the Places We Get to Go!
by Guest Blogger Barb Goffman
Please welcome my friend, short story writer extraordinaire, Barb Goffman to the blog. She’s been a finalist for national crime-writing awards nineteen times: ten times for the Agatha Award, four times for the Macavity Award, three times for the Anthony Award, and once each for the Derringer and Silver Falchion awards. Today, she’s taking us on a trip or two (or six).
Thanks to folks at Criminal Minds, especially my friend Alan Orloff, for inviting me to blog her...
April 12, 2017
Crime novels to transport the reader
by Dietrich KalteisMany readers like to travel vicariously with a good book without having to move from the comfort of their armchair. Are there any crime novels that you particularly enjoyed that transported you to a place or time you had wanted to visit?
A good crime novel transports me, whether to another place and time and into some character’s world. Good writing does that, it draws you in and creates that world. Even a story set in my hometown needs to do that. Sam Wiebe’s Last of the In...
A good crime novel transports me, whether to another place and time and into some character’s world. Good writing does that, it draws you in and creates that world. Even a story set in my hometown needs to do that. Sam Wiebe’s Last of the In...
April 11, 2017
What better way to travel than through a good book
By R.J. Harlick
Many readers like to travel vicariously with a good book without having to move from the comfort of their armchair. Are there any crime novels that you particularly enjoyed that transported you to a place or time you had wanted to visit?
You’ll be reading this as I am wending my way back home to the snow and cold. I’ve had a fabulous time in the sun and heat of Florida, but you know what, I’ll be glad to be back home. And miracles of miracles, with a forecasted temperature...
Many readers like to travel vicariously with a good book without having to move from the comfort of their armchair. Are there any crime novels that you particularly enjoyed that transported you to a place or time you had wanted to visit?
You’ll be reading this as I am wending my way back home to the snow and cold. I’ve had a fabulous time in the sun and heat of Florida, but you know what, I’ll be glad to be back home. And miracles of miracles, with a forecasted temperature...
April 10, 2017
Between the Pages
Terry here, answering the question: Are there any crime novels you read that transported you to a time or place you particularly wanted to visit.
If a novel is doing its job, it makes me feel as if I’m either in the place where the book is set or have been there. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I want to go there for real. One of my favorite crime novelists is Adrian McKinty. I’ve visited Ireland. It’s beautiful. Do I want to be in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? Nope. I like Denise Mi...
If a novel is doing its job, it makes me feel as if I’m either in the place where the book is set or have been there. But that doesn’t necessarily mean I want to go there for real. One of my favorite crime novelists is Adrian McKinty. I’ve visited Ireland. It’s beautiful. Do I want to be in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? Nope. I like Denise Mi...
April 7, 2017
Truth, Justice and the Crime Writing Way!
What prompted you to become a writer of crime fiction?
by Paul D. Marks
Uh, time to delve into that whole Pandora’s Box of psychopathology that makes me, uh, me. And that made me want to become a writer of crime fiction. But we won’t delve too deep. You never know what you might find down in the depths.
So, what prompted me to write crime fiction: I write it so I can kill people...on the page that I can't kill in real life...........
Related to that is the desire to see justice served as it so of...
by Paul D. Marks
Uh, time to delve into that whole Pandora’s Box of psychopathology that makes me, uh, me. And that made me want to become a writer of crime fiction. But we won’t delve too deep. You never know what you might find down in the depths.So, what prompted me to write crime fiction: I write it so I can kill people...on the page that I can't kill in real life...........
Related to that is the desire to see justice served as it so of...
April 6, 2017
Why? Why? For the love of all that's holy WHY?
By Catriona
This week's question is "what prompted you to become a crimewriter?" But yesterday was a bad day for me to answer it.
It started well, with me up bright and early and taking a responsible apporach to the business end, reading through an email from my agent about the UK contract for Standalone Book No. 7. So far, so organised.
Promotion has to be done too. Briefly, before settling down to day's writing, I went on social media and retweeted a photo from London of the first ARCs of...
This week's question is "what prompted you to become a crimewriter?" But yesterday was a bad day for me to answer it.
It started well, with me up bright and early and taking a responsible apporach to the business end, reading through an email from my agent about the UK contract for Standalone Book No. 7. So far, so organised.
Promotion has to be done too. Briefly, before settling down to day's writing, I went on social media and retweeted a photo from London of the first ARCs of...
April 5, 2017
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