SleuthSayers: So Long – for now

SleuthSayers: So Long – for now: Didn't realize until I checked – I've been posting on SleuthSayers for almost eight years, since September, 2016. I don't know h...

SleuthSayers: The Story is Writing Itself

SleuthSayers: The Story is Writing Itself: I got a story on my computer writing itself. It started as a title, an idea forming into a sketchy plot. Once the characters arrived, they j...

SleuthSayers: Don't Ask a Writer

SleuthSayers: Don't Ask a Writer: Inspired by Melodie Campbell's excellent SleuthSayer's article of 25 May 2024 – Three Things You Should Never Ask an Author , I'...

SleuthSayers: We are all apprentices

SleuthSayers: We are all apprentices: Ran across something enlightening on YouTube entitled  Ernest Hemingway's Favorite Writing Exercise  and figured writers would find is a...

SleuthSayers: Paperback Writer

SleuthSayers: Paperback Writer: When I dreamed of writing a novel in high school – my goal was to be a paperback writer, like the song. Twenty years after graduating from h...

SleuthSayers: Getting Ideas From Characters by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Getting Ideas From Characters: Elmore Leonard has been the subject of many fine posts here at SleuthSayers. Just search through the blog for posts by David Edgerley Gates,...

SleuthSayers: Let Them Want More

SleuthSayers: Let Them Want More: Got an email from a reader who said my book  GILDED TIME  left her in tears. She re-read the ending three times and it brought tears to her ...

SleuthSayers: How do you do it? by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: How do you do it?:   Keep getting asked how do I manage to write one or two novels a year, plus some short stories. There's nothing to brag about, it's...

SleuthSayers: More About Opening Lines – Again by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: More About Opening Lines – Again:   HAPPY BASTILLE DAY everyone from this French-American. Following Michael Bracken's lead (again) – In his July 4th SleuthSayer's po...

SleuthSayers: Some Favorite Novels by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Some Favorite Novels: Since posting a list of some of my favorite short stories back on June 2nd, my mind clicked to some of my favorite novels. Many of these boo...

SleuthSayers: Favorite Stories by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Favorite Stories: Favorite short stories Since my story "Cruelty the Human Heart" (first published in  Argosy II magazine, 2004) ) was included in ...

SleuthSayers: How It's Done and Over Mastication by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: How It's Done and Over Mastication: Inspired by recent posts from Michael Bracken and John Floyd, I wrote the following. In his SleuthSayer's posting of 4/11/23, Michael Br...

SleuthSayers: Echoing "Get Involved" by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Echoing "Get Involved": JT Lawton’s SleuthSayers post of February 26 th  provides excellent advice. If any of you missed it, it’s entitled – ”Get Involved.” JT advi...

Little Big Crimes Review: The Other French Detective by O'Neil De Noux

Little Big Crimes: The Other French Detective, by O'Neil De Noux:  "The Other French Detective," by O'Neil De Noux, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, November/ December 2022. My fri...

SleuthSayers: Black is the Night by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Black is the Night:   BLACK IS THE NIGHT Stories Inspired by Cornell Woolrich Just received my copy of  BLACK IS THE NIGHT . Haven’t read it yet, so this is not...

SleuthSayers: Time to go to the movies again by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Time to go to the movies again: It's fun to make lists. Here are some movies lists. What does this have to do with writing? Movies have scripts, don't they? 1. Mov...

SleuthSayers: Best Superhero Costume by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Best Superhero Costume: The summer of 1964, we lived in Junction City, Kansas, a nice small town. When I look back I see that  Twilight Zone  episode "Walking ...

SleuthSayers: A Favorite New Orleans Novel by by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: A Favorite New Orleans Novel: Some books are so forgettable you make the mistake of trying to read it again until you go – Hey, I read this tripe before. Some books stay ...

SleuthSayers: Historical Mystery Revisited by O'Neil De Noux

 SleuthSayers: Historical Mystery Revisited  by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Gilded Time by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: Gilded Time: Trade Paperback and eBook published by Big Kiss Productions, March 2022 Fascinated by the Gilded Age, I started putting a story together a ...