Showing posts with label Janis Patterson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janis Patterson. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: L'Envoi
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: L'Envoi: by Janis Patterson I wish I could play the violin - I’d play something slow and sad and which plucks the heartstrings. Saying good-bye is al...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Most Frightening Thing in the World and How to Conquer It
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Most Frightening Thing in the World and How to...: by Janis Patterson Everyone is afraid of something. Some people are terrified of everything, some just a few, but there is something - whate...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Continuing Evolution of Genre
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Continuing Evolution of Genre: by Janis Patterson If you talk to the oldtimers, life used to be simpler, and in publishing I guess it was. Publishers published books. Some...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Time, Fate and Choices
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Time, Fate and Choices: by Janis Patterson How did it get to be the end of February already? 2024 is almost 1/6th over, and I haven’t even started some of the thing...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Back to the Grindstone
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Back to the Grindstone: by Janis Patterson For those of you who don’t know, my mammoth 22 novel republishing blitz ended on October 25. Thank Goodness! Re-releasin...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: A Decadent Rest Well Earned
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: A Decadent Rest Well Earned: by Janis Patterson I am so happy. And so tired. My republishing blitz is over. Twenty-two books, each re-edited, re-formatted and most with ...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The End Is Nigh
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The End Is Nigh: by Janis Patterson For every beginning there is an ending... and conversely, for every ending there is a beginning... and sometimes it’s har...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Make Mine Mystery: It's All In Your Point Of View by Janis Patterson
Wednesday, August 16, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Dead Zone
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Dead Zone: by Janis Patterson We’ve all been there. We’re writing along happily on a book when suddenly - ZAP! - everything stops. It doesn’t matter if...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Joys of Talking Writer to Writer
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Joys of Talking Writer to Writer: by Janis Patterson Last week I got a kind of vacation - The Husband and I drove up to a secluded Arkansas hideaway where we had been invited...
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Happy Place by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Happy Place: by Janis Patterson Every writer should have a happy place... not that it has to be a distinct physical location, just a place where your min...
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: How To Drive Yourself Absolutely Mad by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: How To Drive Yourself Absolutely Mad: by Janis Patterson Okay, the title of this is a little misleading... if you’re a writer you’re already at least partially mad. Even though w...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Horrors of Homophonic Mayhem by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Horrors of Homophonic Mayhem: by Janis Patterson Their going to brooch the door, and it will phase them awl if they find the diamond pen. Nonsense, right? Definitely, tho...
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Terror of the Blank Page by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Terror of the Blank Page: by Janis Patterson If there is anything that delineates the professional writer from the hobbyist scribbler, it is the respect of a deadline...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Poor Abused Apostrophe and the Confusion It Causes by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Poor Abused Apostrophe and the Confusion It Ca...: by Janis Patterson I will admit it, I am a stickler for the correct usage of the English language, which means that these days my grammatica...
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Christmas, Greenhouses and Life
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Christmas, Greenhouses and Life: by Janis Patterson Am I the only one losing it this Christmas? We’re doing less, but everything takes more time - and a lot more money. Of c...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: A Post About Censorship by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: A Post About Censorship: by Janis Patterson I know this is not a political forum, so I’m not going to be political... just bear with me. I’m not much on social media...
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Weather As Character by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: Weather As Character: by Janis Patterson As you probably know, I'm out of the country now, enjoying my Very Big Trip, so I'm reprinting one of my more pop...
Thursday, June 16, 2022
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Deus Ex Machina Temptation by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Deus Ex Machina Temptation: by Janis Patterson Writers have been lazy for a long time, even back to the earliest days of literature and drama, like the Ancient Greeks. ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Reader-Writer Contract by Janis Patterson
MAKE MINE MYSTERY: The Reader-Writer Contract: by Janis Patterson I hate being treated like a convenience. While there are wonderful readers and I have many wonderful fans, there are thos...
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