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Books Make Great Gifts
by J. L. Greger Now for a really big mystery – what will you buy as gifts for relatives and friends this summer? There are so many holidays – Father’s Day, graduations, birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, family reunions… You don’t want to give candy to overweight (perhaps diabetic) relatives and friends. Flowers can be so expensive,…
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Everything Old Is New Again
by Linda Triegel Once upon a time, not that long ago, all books were printed on paper. Then came the Internet, quickly followed by “e-books”, or books not printed at all but readable electronically. At first, these were not considered “real” books, the presumption being that if an author could not sell her novel to…
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Love is All You Need
Croak & Dagger member Linda Triegel has a short story in e-anthology Love is All You Need available now on Amazon, scheduled to be published in book form August 4th. Linda’s story “Working It Out” is one of ten short romance stories that won top honors in the 2014 Sophie King Prize Contest sponsored by Corazon Books/Wyndham Media…
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Grande Dames and Great Detectives
by Linda Triegel Most writers grow fond of the characters they create, but there must be a special relationship between writers and series characters that, with skill on the writer’s part and staying power on the character’s, appear to change and mature through the life of the series. Between female mystery writers and their detectives,…
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The Writers Block: Figures of Speech
A column on craft by Linda Triegel Figures of speech, or figurative language, are the sound effects added to writing to make it richer and more colorful. The most common figures of speech are: SIMILE A comparison of two different things, introduced by like (“My luve’s like a red, red rose”) or as (“Her dress…
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Mothers of Sisters: Josephine Tey
by Linda Triegel Elizabeth MacKintosh, who wrote mystery novels under the name Josephine Tey, was an intensely private person. Little is known of her life, but her fans are more than satisfied with reading her eight classic short mysteries over and over. What is known is that she was born in 1896 in Inverness, Scotland and…
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What Are Women in Science Like?
by J.L. Greger Scientists are required to submit a full disclosure of their biases when they submit a manuscript for review. Their disclosures are brief because editors charge researchers (or at least the agencies supporting the research) page charges. Here’s mine: My novel Coming Flu (published in July 2012 by Oak Tree Press) is a…