SleuthSayers: Re-Tell Me a Story

SleuthSayers: Re-Tell Me a Story: It seems that I get a lot of my ideas for  SleuthSayers  posts from what I see on my TV--and that's what happened with today's colum...

Criminal Minds: Old Dog, New Tricks from James W. Ziskin

Criminal Minds: Old Dog, New Tricks from James W. Ziskin: What writing lessons did you have to keep learning over and over? Writers are often advised to kill their darlings. This is usually good adv...

SleuthSayers: Pulpwood Fiction

SleuthSayers: Pulpwood Fiction: I like that term. Pulpwood Fiction isn't an established genre, but it's a definite--and different--area of storytelling, one that fo...

SleuthSayers: Okay, You've Been Warned

SleuthSayers: Okay, You've Been Warned: About ten years ago I wrote a post here at SleuthSayers about the technique of foreshadowing in fiction. My intention today was to provide...

Trace Evidence: Start With a Bang (by Craig Faustus Buck)

 Trace Evidence: Start With a Bang (by Craig Faustus Buck)

SleuthSayers: Story Mining by Michael Bracken

SleuthSayers: Story Mining: I don’t often write about the genesis of my stories because I often don’t know or don’t remember much about how they came to be. My stories...

Shotgun Honey: Comics’ll Break Your Heart: Barbarian with a Gun (1994) Max Cage

 Shotgun Honey: Comics’ll Break Your Heart: Barbarian with a Gun (1994) Max Cage

SleuthSayers: When to set a story by O'Neil De Noux

SleuthSayers: When to set a story: The six series characters I write about are set in different times, from the 1880s through today. The fast pace of things today with science...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar May 4-10, 2020 ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar May 4-10, ...: Bookish goings-on[line] in Texas for the week of May 4-10, 2020, compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover. ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Feb. 17-23...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Feb. 17-23...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of February 17-23, 2020, compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Nov 4-10, ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Nov 4-10, ...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of November 4-10, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct. 28-No...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct. 28-No...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of October 28-November 3, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book L...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct 21-27,...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct 21-27,...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of October 21-27, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct 14-20,...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct 14-20,...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of October 14-20, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct. 7-13,...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Oct. 7-13,...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of October 7-13, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Sept. 30-O...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar Sept. 30-O...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 30-October 6, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 23-29, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover. ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 16-22, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover. ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 9-15, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover.  ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...

TEXAS BOOK LOVER: Monday Roundup: Texas Literary Calendar September ...: Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of September 2-8, 2019 compiled exclusively for  Lone Star Literary Life  by Texas Book Lover. ...