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Happy New Year! February’s not too late to say that, right? How are the New Year’s resolutions going? Are you still sticking with yours? Yeah, me neither. One thing I am sticking with in 2020 is podcasting. In July 2019,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2020 at My Weblog

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Write Around the Holidays

by Alexia Gordon Thanksgiving 2019 is in the books and the holiday season has officially started. (I know some of you started way back in October but, to me, the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade marks the season’s beginning.) From now... Continue reading

Posted Dec 3, 2019 at My Weblog

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Once Upon a NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo since 2010 and I’m doing it again this year. Why? A couple of reasons. One, NaNoWriMo is a non-profit organization that supports writing and education and encourages... Continue reading

Posted Nov 12, 2019 at My Weblog

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'Tis The Season--To Check in the Closet and Under the Bed

by Alexia Gordon of the Femmes Fatales. It’s October! This is my favorite month and not just because I was born in October. I know autumn officially starts in late September, but October feels like autumn really means it. Temperatures... Continue reading

Posted Oct 1, 2019 at My Weblog

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A Graphic Break from Writing

I just hit send on edits for my fifth Gethsemane Brown novel, Execution in E. Just, as in forty-five minutes before I sat down to write this post. (Which is why it’s late and why it may ramble.) Right now,... Continue reading

Posted Sep 3, 2019 at My Weblog

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Where in the World Is...

How much travel is too much travel? I love traveling. The chance to get out on the road and go places factored heavily into my decision to accept my current day job. Going to mystery conferences and conventions has been... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2019 at My Weblog

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Finding Pleasure

Today on Femmes Fatales, debut author, Grace Topping, joins us to talk about Finding Pleasure. Hey, Reece Witherspoon, are you listening? For a number of years, my family and I lived in a home built in the 1950s. As was... Continue reading

Posted May 7, 2019 at My Weblog

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Camping Out

I’m up past my bedtime. Why? Some kind of April Fools’ joke on myself? No. I’m up until an hour that’s going to make it painful to get up for work in the morning because today (Monday, the day I’m... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2019 at My Weblog

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A Rose by Any Other Name

Today, Fatality in F, the fourth book in the Gethsemane Brown Mysteries, goes on sale. A momentous occasion! Four books makes #gethsemanebrown an official series instead of a trilogy. This time out, Gethsemane has to save Frankie from charges he... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2019 at My Weblog

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The best laid planners of Scots and foxes

This is Aimee again … stepping in for Catriona this week because she’s got one too many things on her plate right now. Speaking of having many things to do …. I need to confess something. I have a problem.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 22, 2019 at My Weblog

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Up Next: 2019

Happy New Year’s! How are you celebrating the start of 2019? By sleeping off the fun you had on New Year’s Eve? Or did you get up early to greet the start of a new year filled with possibility and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2019 at My Weblog

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Guest Post: Laura Kemp, author of Evening in the Yellow Wood

Alexia: My guest today on Femmes Fatales is Laura Kemp. Her debut novel, Evening in the Yellow Wood, comes out on December 12. It's published by Pandamoon Publishing. Here, she shares her tips for how-to, and how-not-to, prepare for a... Continue reading

Posted Dec 4, 2018 at My Weblog

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Stormy Weather

by Alexia Gordon. Never open with the weather—said someone who didn’t appreciate how malevolent weather could be. As I write this, it’s been raining for three days. Three menacing, oppressive days. Three days of staring out the windows at dull,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 6, 2018 at My Weblog

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Can You Keep A Secret?

How are you at keeping secrets? Do you belong to the “lips are sealed” tribe? Or do you believe that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them’s dead? I’m a pretty good secret... Continue reading

Posted Oct 2, 2018 at My Weblog

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All in the Name of Research

I wrote a guest post for another blog last night about a man in the audience of a panel I sat on at ThrillerFest XIII. His tone of voice and body language suggested an agenda hidden behind his benign-on-the-surface questions.... Continue reading

Posted Jul 17, 2018 at My Weblog

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Holding Out For A Hero

by Alexia Gordon of the Femmes Fatales. We live in dark times. School shootings, restaurant shootings, nationalistic and xenophobic immigration debates. Racists, misogynists, and other bigots winning converts by leveraging the power of social media to spread their message of... Continue reading

Posted May 22, 2018 at My Weblog

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Hey, Nobody's Perfect

The Agatha Award Best First Novel Nominees take over Femmes Fatales today to discuss their Character’s Biggest Flaw Micki Browning: Marine biologist Dr. Meredith Cavallo, an incredibly intelligent woman with a big heart, can be socially inept at times. She’s... Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2018 at My Weblog

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They All Ate and Were Satisfied

I’m struggling with a dilemma I never thought I’d face—what to serve at a book signing. Cheese? Wine? Cheese and wine? Sandwiches? Wraps? Chicken wings? What about dessert? Cookies? Cupcakes? Should I serve something nutritious? Fruit? Vegetables? Will I be... Continue reading

Posted Mar 20, 2018 at My Weblog

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Shameless Self Promo

Yesterday, I celebrated book release day. Henery Press released Killing in C Sharp, the third book in my cozy mystery series, The Gethsemane Brown Mysteries. Now that the book’s out in the wild, my job is to promote it. Easy,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2018 at My Weblog

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Bite Your Tongue (or Sit on Your Hands)

I follow several writers, some published, some unpublished, on social media. Many post news of book deals, tweet about signing with agents, and ‘gram photos of awards. Friends and followers like, “heart”, and share the good news over social networks.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2018 at My Weblog

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Pack Rat

I’m up late doing something I hate to do—packing. Tonight’s adventure in carry-ons is in preparation for business travel related to my day job but it’s a harbinger of what’s to come. It’s conference season. The Lefty Award nominations have... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2018 at My Weblog

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A Little Crime for Christmas

Christmas is nearly upon us, ready or not. One week to C-day as I write this. I’ve been a bit of a Grinch in years past. Despite Christmas being one of my favorite holidays, I couldn’t conjure much Christmas spirit.... Continue reading

Posted Dec 19, 2017 at My Weblog

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Timing is Everything

I'm going to open a can of worms. It's Monday night, two nights before Thanksgiving. Is it too soon to play Christmas music? I'm browsing Spotify playlists, having exhausted all the new podcasts on my Stitcher true crime playlist. Buried... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2017 at My Weblog

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Lattitude or Attitude?

Hello! This has been a big week for me. I attended my first Bouchercon then returned home in time to write my first Femmes Fatales post. Next, I'm off to my first solo site inspection for my day job. Firsts... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2017 at My Weblog

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Oct 6, 2017