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Chip Cook

Women and Men 5 Replies

I often find it difficult to get into a female frame of mind, and I would bet that the trouble goes the other way as well. I found a book that deals with this, but is not clinical. In fact, it is h...

Tagged: self, other, understand, difference, women

Started by Chip Cook in Reading Room. Last reply by Dan Coleman 24 seconds ago.

Lars Schafft

Interview with Colin Cotterill 3 Replies

As you can listen to on "my page", I interviewed Mr. Colin Cotterill, a Brit living in Thailand, writing some kind of cozies. What do you think? Is there any place in the world, crime fiction has n...

Started by Lars Schafft in The Main Bar. Last reply by Barbara Fister 22 hours ago.

colman keane

BOOK FIRST, THEN THE FILM......OR? 5 Replies

Just started LAYER CAKE which was published about 8 years ago...........still got a copy of the film which I think starred Daniel Craig - as yet unwatched. So book first.......film second. Another...

Started by colman keane in The Main Bar. Last reply by Greymalkin 5 hours ago.

John Dishon

On Yearning and Writer's Block 17 Replies

In one of my creative writing classes I took in college, just a couple years ago, there was a book we were required to read called From Where You Dream by Robert Olen Butler, a Pulitzer Prize-winni...

Tagged: writing books, yearning, writer's block

Started by John Dishon in Writer's Den. Last reply by Dana King 1 day ago.

Greymalkin

Daily reading and inspiration 7 Replies

So where are your daily haunts on the 'net or in periodicals for information and inspiration for your crime works? What blogs or sites do you find the most interesting?

Started by Greymalkin in The Main Bar. Last reply by Christine Duncan 5 hours ago.

carole gill

Chapter length 10 Replies

I know I saw a discussion on this topic, only I can't find it now. So sorry but I'll have to pose my own question concerning chapter lengths. I prefer to read and write fairly short chapters-- My a...

Started by carole gill in Writer's Den. Last reply by carole gill Jul 21.

Daniel Hatadi

New Podcasts on Music Player 5 Replies

For those of you who use the Music Player on the front page of CrimeSpace, you'll know that up until now, it's been a player for Angie's In For Questioning podcast. The reason I chose to keep the...

Started by Daniel Hatadi in CrimeSpace News. Last reply by Angie 6 hours ago.

Christine Duncan

What are the similarities/differences between a cozy mystery and chick lit? 18 Replies

Are all sub genres just starting to blur? I write soft boiled/cozy and those lines have blurred but now in reviews I am starting to get people saying they think it is chick lit. And for the record,...

Tagged: writing, chicklit, cozy, subgenres

Started by Christine Duncan in Box Office. Last reply by I. J. Parker 4 hours ago.

Kandy Williams

Cyanide Poisoning 3 Replies

Does anyone know....what are some physical signs that someone has died from cyanide poisoning? Assuming that the character (since we are writers!) died from injesting cyanide, what tell-tale signs ...

Started by Kandy Williams in The Main Bar. Last reply by Pepper Smith Jul 19.

carole gill

Have you ever read a novel you considered to be preachy? 30 Replies

I.J. has once again aroused my leetle gray cells and they're all jumping up in my head because when I think about it, I can't really recall books I've read that I thought were preachy. Although I w...

Started by carole gill in Reading Room. Last reply by Chip Cook 1 day ago.

Events

K.R. Lewis

CRIMESPACE AUTHOR ERIC STONE INTERVIEWED ON NETDRAG

NETDRAG, EPISODE #4

Tagged: Ray, suspense, NETDRAG, mystery, Sharp

Started by K.R. Lewis in 9 hours ago.

Jacqui Horwood

NOMINEES FOR DAVITT AWARDS FOR THE TOP CRIME BOOKS BY WOMEN

Forty-one crime books by Australian women are competing for Sisters in Crime's 8th Davitt Awards for the best crime novels and true crime books by Australian women published in book form in 2007. ...

Tagged: awards

Started by Jacqui Horwood in 1 day ago.

Marilyn Meredith

Self-Editing

Marilyn Meredith will be in Oakhurst CA at Willow Bridge Bookstore Saturday, July 19 at 2 p.m. giving a workshop on Advanced Self-Editing.

Tagged: Bookstore, Bridge, Willow, self-editing, workshop

Started by Marilyn Meredith in Jul 18.

Blog Posts

Bond moments

When I was fifteen or so, on a family holiday in Majorca, I befriended a group of local Spanish kids. They were older than me and led by Juan, an eighteen year old whose father was one of the richest men on the island. Juan drove Number Five, a Ferrari red catamaran that his father had co-piloted to third place in the world speedboat championship a few years before. It was a monster. I mention this because my research trip to Monte Carlo last week (see… Continue

Posted by James Twining on July 25th, 2008 at 8:44am — No Comments (Add)

Redrum

NEWPORT, RHODE ISLAND: I can’t seem to sever the ties that bind, to clip the cords that keep me strung up like a marionette, forcing me to dance a jelly-legged jig for a captivated audience of one. My every movement, orchestrated and choreographed in this life of crime that I didn’t choose but vice versa. Frankie Sullivan runs the Newport extortion rackets without a hitch and I’m his pee-on, his serf, his muscle and I’ve come to terms with that because I’ve got nothing better waiting for me on… Continue

Posted by Liam on July 25th, 2008 at 7:00am — No Comments (Add)

King of the Holly Hop

I received the nicest note from Les Roberts about my review of King of the Holly Hop, saying I "Got" the book. Yes! Here's my review. It's been twenty-three years since I lived in Ohio, so Les Roberts' Milan Jacovich mysteries always take me back. It's been six years since the last b… Continue

Posted by Lesa Holstine on July 24th, 2008 at 11:04pm — No Comments (Add)

Meet Me Tomorrow in Dulles Airport!

Tomorrow afternoon I continue my summer airport tour with a visit to Borders in Washington Dulles International Airport. If you’re flying onto or out of the Capitol area you can meet me between 1 pm and 5 pm. You may need to look around a little. There are actually three Borders bookstores in the airport and I don’t know which one I’ll be at. With luck, we’ll meet and I can sign a novel for you.

Posted by Austin S. Camacho on July 24th, 2008 at 9:07pm — No Comments (Add)

Know Your Genre & Subgenre

It's hard to pinpoint, pigeonhole, and particularize a book. It may have elements of romance, mystery, adventure, suspense, paranormal, and historical. My book, MACBETH'S NIECE, has all of that. But agents and editors want you to tell them in a word what to call it. This is because they have to have a word to tell their marketing department which has to have a word to tell bookstore owners. "What shelf will it go on?" is the question. Nobody said it was fair, it just is. Some publishers these d… Continue

Posted by Peg Herring on July 24th, 2008 at 8:46pm — No Comments (Add)

 
 

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