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Talking Shop a Guest Post by Catherine Dilts a Mystery Thriller Week Author

This is so stinking true! Great post!!

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Talking Shop
By Catherine Dilts

The sun slants through the blinds, casting lemon bands of light across the bistro table. You lift the coffee mug to your lips. Pause.

“So how are you going to do it?”

Your friend wears a prim expression as she states, “Ligature strangulation,” in the same tone she’d use to utter “sugar cookies.”

“Hmm. I don’t know. Jack is a big guy. Maybe you need to slow him down first. A vase to the back of the skull?”

“Too violent.” She nibbles a pastry.

“Like strangling him isn’t violent?”

“I’m thinking more along the lines of a little something slipped into his drink.” Your friend takes a hearty swig of Earl Gray. She glances past your shoulder. “Oops.”

You turn to follow her gaze. The ladies at the next table send furtive, and nervous, looks your direction.

Do you:

A) Invent a movie title and…

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Where Do Ideas and Inspirations Come from for Mysteries? by Heather Weidner

Thank you so much for letting me visit today. I write mystery novels and short stories. And I’m often asked about where my ideas come from.

Source: Where Do Ideas and Inspirations Come from for Mysteries? by Heather Weidner

Three Tips For Writing Humor by Phillip T. Stephens

Three tips for writing humor An often told proverb claims, “dying is easy, comedy is hard.” Writers struggling to write comedy find it equally apropos. Novice writers who want to add a comic flair …

Source: Three Tips For Writing Humor by Phillip T. Stephens

What’s a Writer of Thrillers to do When Reality Outstrips Fiction? by Brian Greiner

What’s a writer of thrillers to do when reality outstrips fiction? by Brian Greiner The great fun in writing thrillers is playing with fascinating technologies and concepts. The problem with thrill…

Source: What’s a Writer of Thrillers to do When Reality Outstrips Fiction? by Brian Greiner

The Librarian Author by Debbie DeLouise

It’s my pleasure to participate in Mystery Thriller Week by sharing a post about myself, my books, and my feelings about writing and publishing.  As a librarian, reader, and author, books and…

Source: The Librarian Author by Debbie DeLouise

My Advice for New Writers by John W. Howell

I was at a book signing the other day, and a person asked me a question that caused me to have to think a little before blurting out an answer. The question was, “What should every new write…

Source: My Advice for New Writers by John W. Howell

My Mystery Addiction Started with Nancy Drew by Heather Weidner

My Mystery Addiction Started with Nancy Drew I have loved mysteries since Scooby Doo and Nancy Drew. Saturday morning cartoons in the United States in the 1970s were full of mysteries and sleuths. …

Source: My Mystery Addiction Started with Nancy Drew by Heather Weidner


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Operation Hardcover by Dave Agans

“Mr. Kneeland is here” said the intercom. Stephanie Crusher, head of AAH Furniture Corporation, pressed a button. “Send him in.” Bill Kneeland pushed through the door as if a tiger waited to pounce…

Source: Operation Hardcover by Dave Agans


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Meet the Highwaypersons by Geoffrey Monmouth Participating MTW Author

Who are the Highwaypersons?  What are they like? People have asked me about the main characters in my book Highwaypersons: Debts and Duties.   It is hardly an unreasonable question and it is not on…

Source: Meet the Highwaypersons by Geoffrey Monmouth Participating MTW Author

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