Lois Winston, Guest Author

June 14, 2023

Lois Winston’s twelfth Anastasia Pollack Crafting Mystery, A Crafty Collage of Crime, will be released on Friday, June 16. She took time from her pre-publication schedule to talk about writing. Thank you, Lois. My Two Families By Lois Winston I’m often asked why...

Art Taylor, Guest Author, On Writing What You Know

May 09, 2020

We have Jeffrey Marks, publisher at Crippen & Landru, to thank for today’s post. He suggested Art Taylor for a piece on the blog. Thank you to both Jeffrey and Art. Art Taylor is the author of the story collection The Boy Detective & The Summer of...

Reading in Bed by Brian Doyle

April 14, 2019

In between mysteries, essays are just what I need. Brian Doyle’s collection, Reading in Bed, was entertaining and interesting for someone who is a reader. I bought it for several friends who are writers as well because there is so many ideas in this book with...