Terry Shames's Blog: 7 Criminal Minds, page 63

To Be A Fly On The Brain, by Josh Stallings

Q: Which author(s) (living or dead) would you like to meet one-on-one to talk about the writing craft? What is it about their writing or life that most interests you?

A: My father, Tobias Jean, was a painter, a sculptor, a poet, a jeweler, and much more. He lived his life immersed in the river of creativity. Walking through a museum he never wanted me to read the cards beside a painting, the ones written by a curator giving the work’s context. 

“That,” he’d point at the painting, “Is the arti...

Before you go, by Catriona

Which author(s) (living or dead) would you like to meet one-on-one to talk about the writing craft? What is it about their writing or life that most interests you?

I can't lie: I don't want to have dinner with any writers, living or dead, at the moment. I'm trying to wrangle a second draft into a third draft and hoping it's a final draft, and I want to have dinner with editors. I don't even want to have dinner with them (look at that; I can lie). I want to lock them in a basement and force them t...

The "Dream Team" by Cathy Ace

Which author(s) (living or dead) would you like to meet one-on-oneto talk about the writing craft? What is it about their writing or life thatmost interests you?

To be honest, even ten years ago I’d have had a list as long asmy arm in answer to this question; since then, I’ve been incredibly fortunateto be able to meet many authors whose work has given me great pleasure over thedecades, and to listen to them giving interviews or speaking on panels – oreven to have spent some personal time...

If I Had A Hammett by Gabriel Valjan

 

Which author(s)(living or dead) would you like to meet one-on-one to talk about the writingcraft? What is it about their writing or life that most interests you?

 

No disrespect intended, but I dislike talks on craft. I cantell you what I was thinking when I wrote X or Y, why I did this or that, but,ultimately, I can’t describe how I write. As for my answer to this question, itwould have to be Dashiell Hammett, but not for the obvious reasons.

 

I would like to disc...

Fangirl Stuff

 Q: Which author(s) (living or dead) would you like to meet one-on-one to talk about the writing craft? What is it about their writing or life that most interests you?

 

-from Susan

 

Lucky me, I’ve met, dined with, learned from, and listened to many wonderful crime fiction writers working today, thanks to our conferences, conventions, and pandemic zoom sessions. There are other authors, many outside of the genre, that I’ve also heard and met. In fact, Catriona and I are going to a talk by the fears...

Surrender-not

by Abir 

Which secondary character have you created that you find the most intriguing and memorable? Please share the scene where they appeared and outline the impact they had on the story and on you.

Surendranath Banerjee is a young sergeant, newly recruited into the Calcutta Police. He’s a bright lad, one of the first Indians to be inducted into CID, and he did pretty well in the police entrance exams too. The third son of an influential and well-to-do Bengali family, he was educated in England,...

Fadge: Ellie Stone’s Second to None from James W. Ziskin

Which secondary character have you created that you find the most intriguing and memorable? Please share the scene where they appeared and outline the impact they had on the story and on you.

Fadge dealing with a deadbeat teenage customer

Readers of my Ellie Stone mysteries have often expressed their affection for Ellie’s best friend, Ron “Fadge” Fiorello. He’s my favorite secondary character, too. Fadge is 6’ 2” tall and weighs more than 300 pounds. He owns the ice-cream shop across the street fr...

Supporting Cast

Which secondary character have you created that you find the most intriguing and memorable? Please share the scene where they appeared and outline the impact they had on the story and on you.

by Dietrich

Secondary characters play significant roles by adding interesting counterpoint to the main characters. They bring along their own subplots, back stories and baggage. Like the main characters, I love writing them and watching them come to life. Here are two who I’d like to introduce you to. 

Wr...

Who's On Second?

 

Terry here:
Our question this week is about secondary characters--which ones we've created that we find the most intriguing and memorable? I've included the scene where they appeared and said a few words about the impact they had on the story. 
The obvious best answer would be Loretta Singletary, who eventually deserved her own book (A Risky Undertaking for Loretta Singletary.) From the opening line of A Killing at Cotton Hill, the first in the Samuel Craddock series, she has played a pivotal rol...

A Secondary Character, First in Readers' Hearts

Which secondary character have you created that you find the most intriguing and memorable? Please share the scene where they appeared and outline the impact they had on the story and on you.

Brenda starting off the week.

So this happens to be a big week for me with When Last Seen, book two in the Hunter and Tate mysteries, newly released on April 1st. This is my twenty-fourth published book but it never gets old :-)

There are a number of secondary characters I could choose to answer this week's qu...