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Blog postIt was a thrill to schedule my first in-person book events in more than a year.
I signed up for Bouchercon, the world mystery book convention, in New Orleans – a location that doubles the fun of my favorite writers’ conference. I scheduled readings at two Montana independent bookstores, Fact and Fiction in Missoula and This House of Books in Billings, to coincide with the releases of The Truth of It All and Best Kept Secrets. And I was scheduled for two different pane -
Blog postWe’re hearing a lot about drought these days – towns in California running out of water, Lake Powell shrinking to historically low levels, and the grassy hills behind my Montana home growing browner and crispier by the day.
It’s scary – the physical embodiment of how a writing drought feels.
When my first book was published, I imagined some sort of steady upward trajectory, with a book a year and better sales each year, maybe even a bestseller someday. You know, th -
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It’s always fun/stressful to come up with new and inventive ways to kill people in crime novels – which, by their very nature, require a body or two. Occasionally, too, a protagonist finds herself in a fight to the death, which in turn generally requires a weapon of some sort.
I tend to shy away from guns, for the sole reason that it’s way to easy to get something about them wrong and then you look like an idiot and readers cease to trust y -
Blog postI’ve just started a new novel and this time, this time, FOR REAL, I’m going to use an outline.
Oh, ha ha ha. I crack myself up.
But at least I’ve taken baby steps toward one, by writing a synopsis. The first draft of my most recent novel (and, let’s face it, every one before it) was an unholy mess, involving characters and scenes that ended up on the cutting room floor, which meant I wasted tons of time on stuff that never made it -
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I recently gave a workshop that included a section on tropes – you know, the alcoholic detective, the hooker with a heart of gold, the pretty teenage victim – things that exist because of an element of truth, but that quickly become wearying.
Change ‘em up, I said. Give that victim some agency (Tim Johnston’s Descent is my favorite example here.)
Hardly original advice, illustrated far better than I by Halley Sutton’s recent column on -
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Workshopping around a fire with Pam Houston
Back in the blissfully ignorant days before my first book was published, I thought that once I saw that book in print, the next would come easily.
Silly, silly writer.
Keith McCafferty, a Bozeman writer whose Sean Stranahan mysteries prominently feature fly-fishing, shared an excellent mantra – “Each book better than the one before” — which of course onl -
Blog postCall it research. Yeah, let’s go with that.
The work-in-progress (the second in the Nora Best series from Severn House) is based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and has a lot of regional food references. (Although, as I’m writing this, I realize there are no steamed crabs in the book, an unforgivable oversight that will be remedied posthaste).
But there are Maryland beaten biscuits, a childhood favorite, and a Baltimore peach cake, which I’d never hear -
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It was a thrill to see a Lithuanian version of Silent Hearts (Tylios Sirdys, published by Leidykla Sofoklis), which also has been published in Italian (La Moglie dello Straniero; Casa Editrice Nord) – and even more of one to see it included on a list of recommended summer reads.
Given Lithuania’s location on the Baltic Sea, I suppose this officially makes it a beach read, something I’ve always wanted for one of my books.
Better yet, it’s in some pretty amazing c -
Blog postBetween the day job and book work lately, I haven’t been getting much sleep – for the best of reasons on both fronts.
In the day job, we’re in the final week before municipal elections in Missoula, and starting the final year before the state- and nationwide 2020 elections, which basically means we’ll be in full-sprint mode the whole time. Color me the sort of weirdo who loves this stuff.
There are some fun developments on the book front as well. My second novel, Dakota, was r -
Blog postPsyched to announce some good news – that I’ve signed a contract with British publisher Severn House for two crime novels featuring a protagonist named Nora Best.
I’m doubly psyched because my previous series featuring reporter Lola Wicks effectively ended when my publisher, Midnight Ink, shut down. It’s fun to be starting something with a new protagonist and a whole new set of circumstances.
All I’ll say about Nora is that she’s not a journalist, and at the beginning of the f
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Montana Noir (Akashic Noir)
Aug 21, 2017
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James Grady,
Keir Graff,
Thomas McGuane,
Gwen Florio,
Walter Kirn,
Jamie Ford,
Janet Skeslien Charles,
David Abrams
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