http://murder.booklocker.com Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:57:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The newest book in the Senior Center Murder series has just been released through BookLocker. You can purchase a copy at Barnes & Noble online or from BookLocker directly. For those of you who have been asking, yes, the romance between suburban cowboy detective Stan Nevins and the curvaceous, feisty Park ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2008/06/03/gold-medal-murder-released/ It should come as no surprise that I'm thinking of abandoning this blog. After a year of trying to make it work, I'm simply giving up ... for now. Maybe I'll reinvent myself and it. Maybe not. There's lots of good stuff hidden in the archives - take a look around. Thanks ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/08/17/temporarily-on-hiatus/ The End: Just the Beginning By Chiara Talluto The End. Two of the most famous and widely known words in the written language. I love the word The End. I often start my writing with some "end" in mind and work my way back. I say "some end" because every once in a ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/08/06/spotlight-on-cwa-member-chiara-talluto/ There's a book that I think several of my readers will have an interest in, particularly veterans. It's called Heroes Among Us by Hal Terrell. It's the story of "twenty-two boys who grew up in a small western Colorado town during The Great Depression and how they dealt with their ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/08/04/heroes-among-us/ [Niama Leslie Williams, Ph.D., better known as Dr. Ni, is a radio talk show host. I recently asked if she would do a guest post about what she's looking for in the work submitted to her.] WHAT I LOOK FOR:  A SHORT ESSAY ON CRAFT AND SOPHISTICATION I was standing on a hot, sweaty ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/08/04/guest-post-dr-niama-williams/ Don't know how I missed this! The World Is a Kitchen contributor Helen Gallagher recently won Third Place in the Illinois Womens Press Association Essay Contest for her story "Flavor by the Spoonful." The award was judged on the essay's fit with the overall theme of the book.  The Judge, a PR ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/07/31/helen-gallagher-cwaer/ The Early Years: a writer's roots By Jen Wilding Between the ages of 5 and 12, if you'd have asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have told you both a ballerina and a detective. From ages 13 to 16 I would've answered: psychologist. From ages ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/07/30/spotlight-on-cwas-jen-wilding/ The folks over at The Germaine Truth are conducting an incredible online fiction experiment complete with a newspaper, town hall, plus several characters, maps, etc. Well worth a look. The thing that caught my eye when I was bopping around there is that their coffeehouse uses the same Ginseng coffee theme ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/07/28/291/ Lew Weinstein has just posted that his novel, which he offered free to readers of this blog, is now in print. I congratulated Lew and said, "I suppose you’re already busy writing the next one, right?" He replied, "Yes, I am deep into research … Lorenzo de Medici’s Florence in the late ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/07/26/a-good-conviction-now-in-print/ [Today’s Spotlight is on Chicago Writers Association member J.D. Gordon] It is every time that I look at something of mine that some misguided nut out there decided to print that I'm amazed. I never intended to get into writing as a career or even a hobby really. It was just ... http://murder.booklocker.com/2007/07/24/spotlight-on-cwas-jd-gordon/