
Writers Who Kills
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Writers Who Kills is a murder, mystery, and crime blog written by several authors of short stories and novels where you can a collection of their work in the blog posts.
Writers Who Kills
20h ago
By Margaret S. Hamilton
When I contemplated writing a story about our 2022 visit to the Dordogne region in southwest France, I made a list of everything I had liked about the area: the food, wine, castles, churches, and ruins, the rolling countryside and rivers, and the layers of history, from prehistoric caves to medieval castles and villages. In addition, we encountered many reminders of the retribution committed by German soldiers during the summer of 1944, following the success of the D-Day invasion.
Eyrignac Manor
During our visit, I experienced a str ..read more
Writers Who Kills
2d ago
Judge Debra H. Goldstein’s novels and short stories have received Silver Falchion, IPPY, BWR, and AWC awards and been named as Agatha, Anthony, Derringer, and Claymore finalists. Debra’s short pieces have appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies including Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, and Mystery Weekly.
With Our Bellies Full and the Fire Dying, is a collection of eighteen award-winning short mysteries, from cozy to dark, centering around family and friends, their sins and their sometimes redemption.
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Writers Who Kills
3d ago
As a writer, I love to play with words. Here’s a few we could use for our writing.
An editor’s job is often to make a long story short.
Imagining a scene in color is a pigment of your imagination.
A man clad only in his underwear led police on a brief chase.
Do race horses slow down if they see police horses?
I was thinking about writing a drama about puns. It would be a play on words.
To defend against an attack by a group of itinerant medieval entertainers, have your character go for the juggler.
When his father had him carry a can of gas, a boy asked, “Dad, are we pyromaniacs?” He an ..read more
Writers Who Kills
4d ago
Yes, I've been a bit quiet lately. As my younger daughter says, life has gotten a bit "lifey." But it's in these "lifey" times that it's wonderful to escape into a good book. Tonight I'll be diving into Louise Penny's The Gray Wolf and I'm looking forward to getting my copy of the eighth Guppy anthology: Gone Fishin' Crime Takes a Holiday.
What's on your bedside table tonight ..read more
Writers Who Kills
5d ago
by Korina Moss
When I began writing my fifth Cheese Shop mystery, Fondue or Die, I had one thought – to make things easy on myself. For once, I was going to choose the path of least resistance. You see, I’d just finished writing book 4, Case of the Bleus, which was anything but easy. I’d written it with two mysteries in one book—a murder mystery and a cheese mystery. It was a fun idea, but intersecting the two plotlines for the denouement’s reveal was more difficult than I’d anticipated. Let’s just say, there was a lot of hair-pulling to get it done just right and on deadline. It was w ..read more
Writers Who Kills
6d ago
By Lisa Malice, Ph.D.
Skin cancer is no fun. It’s been eight weeks since my dermatologist excised a quarter-sized piece of skin from my right cheek to ensure I was melanoma-free. A plastic surgeon then spent more than two hours repairing my face. I no longer look like the Bride of Frankenstein, but the large L-shaped scar on my cheek—still red and puffy—does draw some stares, leaving me pondering how I should respond when meeting up with readers at book events. This question was on my mind during a two-hour drive to discuss LEST SHE FORGET and my journey as a writer with a book club.
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Writers Who Kills
1w ago
I’ve been working on a new series, the Seahorse Bay Mysteries, and it’s quickly become clear to me that I’d forgotten how difficult it is to start from scratch. New setting, new characters, new dynamics. After writing six books in the Callie Cassidy Mystery series, I’d grown accustomed to Rock Creek Village and its residents. It’s so much easier to get in the heads of people I already know well than to…well, build new heads.
One of the biggest challenges has been what I refer to as “navigating the dump.” The info dump, that is. How can I figure out what backstory readers need and ..read more
Writers Who Kills
1w ago
One of the questions I’m often asked is “How do you come up with the names of places in your writing?” I’ve been popping back and forth between two mystery series, and currently I’m working on a fifth book in my Endurance series. So, I thought I’d go back and see how I populated that series with place names. It all started with Three May Keep a Secret.
My first name is obviously the name of the small town where my first cozy mystery series takes place. The town is Endurance, Illinois. Because I’ve lived in the Midwest—specifically Illinois—most of my life, I wanted to write about a pl ..read more
Writers Who Kills
1w ago
by Lois Winston
The expression, “Truth is stranger than fiction” has been around for a long time. In 1897, Mark Twain published the travel book Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. Chapter Fifteen included the epigraph, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t. — Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar.”
However, Twain wasn’t the first to come up with some version of the saying. Seventy-four years earlier, Lord Byron had Don Juan opine, “’Tis strange — but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger th ..read more
Writers Who Kills
1w ago
By James M. Jackson
I recently went to a Friends-of-the-Library event at a nearby branch to hear Jeff Nania speak. He writes the Northern Lake Mysteries set in “up north” Wisconsin (which is “down south” from my place in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula). And then that night, I finished reading The Killer Sermon by Kevin Kluescner, which is the first of a series featuring the FBI Special Agent in Charge of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin office.
In addition to the authors setting their series novels in Wisconsin, they both deal with hot-button issues. Nania is a conservationist with a deep belief that peop ..read more