I don’t know where I found this quote, but I’ve had it on my desktop for a few years.
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For some reason, almost everything in the mystery genre is being compared to And Then There Were None these days.
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This is where I am, after a long, unexpected pause.
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A late autumn visit to Lake O’Hara in Yoho National Park happened to fall on the last day the bus was running.
Read MoreEach notebook represents a future book, one that has a fairly complete idea, with plot and the beginnings of character profiles. So far, I’ve started 17 of these Moleskines.
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Truer words, etc. etc….
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… so you don’t have to
Read MoreI’ve had one quick “thanks but no thanks,” three choruses of crickets, and two requests for full manuscript.
Read MoreIt’s possible that I see myself in this quote by the author of Transatlantic.
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I don’t often go back to read golden age mysteries, because the focus then wasn’t on character development. It was on plot, and building a puzzle.
Read MoreThe plot of The Ice Coffin hinges on a discovery at the edge of a melting glacier, but not just any glacier.
Read MoreI’m not sure when the word ‘reveal’ became a noun, but it has transformed the amateur reviewing space.
Read MoreA few weeks ago some friends and I hiked a section of the Rockwall Trail in Kootenay National Park.
Read MoreI’m finally querying The Ice Coffin, which must mean I found a way to stop writing it.
Read MoreI was hooked on Vanity Fair magazine in the late 80s, following the antics of all those Reagan-era party people who have since faded from view.
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Two young girls, sisters, are taken away in the car of a stranger after spending an aimless day exploring a near-deserted shoreline on the outskirts of their city.
Read MoreI go back to this video, from Every Frame a Painting, from time to time. It’s a brilliant short doc on the animator Chuck Jones.
Read MoreIn a previous life, I worked as a magazine writer and editor, and one of my favorite things to do as a magazine editor was to chop the ends off of articles.
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I like an epic. A story that takes multiple characters through time, through geographic locations, through personal evolution.
Read MoreI’m sensing that the craze for true crime stories is entering a new phase, when a trend in popular culture becomes so saturated that a backlash begins.
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