I’m over at Kepler’s Well Read Donkey again today, talking about plots, problems, and PostIts (with a photo of the last, a small avalanche of the yellow lined PostIts I use, then fold in half when I remove them so I know it’s a point I’ve finished with.)
Read MoreSometimes one gets a chance to revisit old friends. No, this is not a paean to Facebook, but mention of a short story, long out of print, that’s going to take another stroll across the stage in a collection of Sherlockiana being published next month. The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains a short story…
Read MoreI’m over at the blog for Kepler’s bookstore this week, The Well Read Donkey, talking about beginnings, middles, and ends. While you’re there, maybe you could even click onto the Kepler’s link and buy a book? Hooray for indies! And I would be remiss if I did not point out that the Perseid meteors are…
Read MoreYesterday was crunch day. I’d worked my way through the rewrite, incorporating half a tree’s worth of PostIts and a brick of graphite, and reached the final scene. I wrote it back in April, which as you may or may not remember was a busy time anyway for LRK and her e-world, and although there…
Read MoreYou thought that once the Fifteen Weeks of Bees were over, we’d be finished with contests, right? Ah no, we’re just beginning. How creative are you feeling? Well, sharpen those pencils and wits, kids, because Laurie needs a title. That’s right, The Green Man just doesn’t do it. As a working title, sure, because it’s about…
Read MoreSo there I was, smack in the middle of the kind of plot problems that come when you’ve written a complicated first draft through some really difficult times, when the ever-clever Rick Kleffel asks me to talk into a microphone for him. He was doing an NPR piece for All Things Considered about a pair…
Read MoreOne of my favorite columnists at the San Francisco Chronicle, Jon Carroll, has nice words to say about me today, here. It’s always a kick when someone gets it, when the things that amuse me (fiction linked to fiction linked to reality and getting lost therein) amuse others as well.
Read MoreThe Language of Bees has a trailer, thanks to the fantabulous creativity of Two Rock Media:
Read MoreCorte Madera is a small town on the freeway just north of San Francisco, out of the main summer fog belt but close enough to feel its cooling effects. Every July, Book Passage runs a mystery writing conference, limited to around 80 people, although it seems as if the published writers outnumber the would-be writers,…
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