Barbara here, finally. I have been AWOL from this blog for a month due to unexpected medical challenges but I am back!Albeit late and with a short post. In my last post I revealed the offic...
by Sybil JohnsonI’ve written a couple posts before about some of the podcasts I’ve listened to over the last few years. I admit that I haven’t listened to as many lately as I used to,...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/04/podcasts-podcasts-podcasts.html
by Charlotte HingerBoth Thomas and Donis have recent posts about cursing. According to the guidelines for submissions for the Will Rogers Medallion men didn't cuss around ladies before 1962...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/04/more-about-curses.html
Oh, dear me. I have company coming. I have been cleaning like a madwoman and have fallen so far behind on everything writerly. I missed my last scheduled Type M entry - mainly because I got a Cov...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/04/colorful-language.html
by Sybil Johnson Today I shall talk about a number of random topics I’ve found of interest lately. Let’s start out with Sunny for the Bunny!Sunny for the Bunny – I was in Seattle...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/04/sunny-for-bunny-and-more.html
By Thomas KiesSwearing, cursing…include it in your dialogue? Don’t include it? Does it make what your characters are saying any less authentic? Will you p*** off reade...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/04/curses-when-to-use-them.html
I recently saw The Godfather Part II and one scene that struck me as painfully relevant to today was when the young Vito Corleone was processed through Ellis Island. The episode was meant t...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/03/stories-not-yet-written.html
When you open a book you've never read before, when did you first go “Hmm! How interesting!” I (Donis) know you've heard many times how important the opening few sentences of a novel are, and...
by Sybil Johnson I recently did a bookstore event hosted by Mystery Ink in Huntington Beach, CA with Jennifer J. Chow, author of four different series including her most recent one, the Mag...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/03/out-and-about.html
By Charlotte HingerI've received the pages for Mary's Place, my historical novel that will be published by the University of Nebraska Place this July. The next step is for me to scrutinize all th...
In my last blog post, I said I was waiting for the final decision from the publisher on the title for my upcoming Inspector Green novel. It's rare that I don't know exactly the right title for a ...
I (Donis) would like to talk about dreams today, Dear Reader.A while back I was getting ready to conduct a journaling and memoir workshop. I pulled out some of my own old journals and...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/03/let-us-talk-about-dreams.html
by Sybil JohnsonI’ve been hearing a lot lately about how companies are having a hard time getting workers to go back to the office post-pandemic. People seem to have settled in working fr...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/03/working-environments.html
By Thomas Kies On Valentine’s Day, my first cataract surgery took place. Romantic, huh? It was my left eye and before the surgery, it had gotten so that I could barely see out of it. ...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/03/looking-at-things-in-new-ways.html
I had intended this post to be the revelation of my new book title, the twelfth Inspector Green mystery, featuring the disgruntled, exiled Green toiling away in the "Siberia" of police assi...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/hurry-up-and-wait.html
By Charlotte HingerBoy, do I ever wish I had started keeping track of everything connected with writing from the beginning. Some years back when I needed to assemble a Curriculum Vitae (CV)...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/keeping-track.html
I've been at this writing game for awhile. My debut novel was published in 2006. Since then I've had several more novels and numerous short stories come out, plus I've done time as a creative wri...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/back-in-learners-seat.html
Time passes so quickly that it alarms me sometimes. How did I get anything done at all in my real life when I worked for other people? The truth is that I didn't, or at least I was only abl...
by Sybil Johnson Today I’m continuing my thoughts on becoming a hybrid author and what I learned along the way. If you didn’t see Part I, you can find it here. Sorry this pos...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/becoming-hybrid-author-part-ii.html
by Charlotte HingerMy heart is still in Kansas even though my body is in Colorado. I watched the extremely satisfying Super Bowl game with my daughter, Michele, and son-in-law, Harry Crocke...
Donis here, Dear Readers. Today I'm posting a "Tip of The Week" from wildly prolific writer and my friend, Dan Baldwin, Dan is the author of westerns, mysteries, thrillers, short story...
by Sybil Johnson The first five books in my Aurora Anderson series are traditionally published by a small press. When they decided not to publish the sixth one, I could have tried to get an...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/becoming-hybrid-author-part-i.html
By Charlotte Hinger No, I'm not plotting mayhem during this election cycle. Not yet, at least.I need a hit man in my new mystery. It can't be someone too good at the job. ...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/i-need-hit-man.html
By Thomas KiesFifty years…that sounds like a long time ago, and I guess it was. But sometimes it doesn’t seem like it. I read in the Washington Post that it was fifty years a...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/02/really-jaws-is-fifty-years-old.html
Barbara here, slightly late for my Wednesday morning post. Today I am simply copying a recent post I saw on Facebook, which addresses an issue that my friends, family, and I have been mulli...
https://typem4murder.blogspot.com/2024/01/american-and-british-shows.html