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Thanks, Priscilla and CONGRATULATIONS on your Killer Nashville nomination!
Different, Not Better
Prejudice: any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable. Only in my first series did I write characters who grew up in a time and place that invited prejudice. A city of immigrants – 33% Italian; 33% Irish; 33% Jewish; a smattering of WASPS. (In retrospect, I pity the I...
Sashimi is prettier than I thought. (I thought it was a tidal wave that wrecked homes.)
NEWS and Prejudicial Characters
NEWS Camille Minichino will be at the Fremont, California, library on Thursday, August 21, at noon, for a brown bag talk. The large print edition of The Quotient of Murder, by Ada Madison (aka Camille Minichino), 4th in the Professor Sophie Knowles series, has been released. TOPIC FOR THE COMI...
NOT appealing, Linda!
Mystery and Munchies
My favorite snacks while reading or writing mysteries are carrot sticks, apple slices, and cherry tomatoes. Ha ha ha. If you believe that, you'll believe anything I write from now on! The truth is, I'm a sweets muncher. I can multitask-sweet munch with almost any other activity. Sometimes I eve...
I like your idea of "thrashing," Ann - necessary for me, too, to get to the zone!
If in the zone and blocked after coffee and a biscotti, I have the (fictional) phone or doorbell ring. Who is it? Why are they calling? What's she going to do about it? SOMETHING will come up as an answer that moves the plot one way or another. Or I end up nagging my characters. "Do something!" They usually obey.
Block by Block by Ann Parker
To quote loosely from the fairy-tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears: Someone (or something) has been sitting in my chair .... blocking the path to the keyboard. To remove writer's block, put tuna in dinner bowl. However, I can't use the cat as an excuse for writer's block. Nor can I put her t...
Let me know if renaming works, Terry, but I have to say I can't imagine celery winning out over anything from my local bakery!
Thanks for giving us authors credit for at least some discipline!
Scolding Ingrid and Defiant Dolores
Oooo, our topic this week is “munchies and mysteries” my favorite topic! NOT. Since my first book came out last July, I have packed on eight (8, yes count them, eight) pounds. Although over the years I’ve gradually porked up, this is a new and exciting adventure in weight gain. The question is...
Yes, this time the mini was wrong, Mysti! The problem was the wafer and the chocolate center had to match in size. Interesting experiment!
Maybe it is "niche"-related, Ann! But when I needed new luggage recently I bought it in a store that had only TWO choices!
Mystery and Munchies
My favorite snacks while reading or writing mysteries are carrot sticks, apple slices, and cherry tomatoes. Ha ha ha. If you believe that, you'll believe anything I write from now on! The truth is, I'm a sweets muncher. I can multitask-sweet munch with almost any other activity. Sometimes I eve...
Wow, Admin, this is one to be printed and studied.
While I'm thinking of the last question, all the current "procedurals" on tv come to mind. The trend is to give every series cop family or romantic baggage: her sister was murdered when they were kids; his wife and daughter were murdered, the killer still out there; the new boss is her ex; his mother is in a psych ward. As if the writer can't think of another way to give the character gravitas. Maybe readers/viewers need this?
Can't Live With Them, Can't Kill Them
That's the old joke about family from my college days. I love my friends, they are like family to me--in fact, when confronted by a nightmarish boyfriend situation, I ran to my friends for help. The thing is, that family that some of us run from in our teenaged years is always with us, informing...
Thanks, Terry. I like the image of Ida Ruth reading one of my Miniature Mysteries. I can sign a copy for her and send it to Small Town, Texas!
What My Characters Are Reading.
What My Characters Are Reading. It’s funny that in books you hardly ever see anyone reading or watching TV, although most of us spend some time doing both. I suppose that’s because watching a character doing either wouldn’t be very interesting. So what do my characters read when they ar...
Ann, It looks like a lot when it's listed this way . . . I'll bet if you write everything out, your list will match in length!
Also, as you've probably found out, the e-reader makes it so much easier to have many books going at once -- built in bookmarks and places for notes and the ability to carry around as many books as you want!
I'm a snatch reader (and writer!), catching bits of time all day, then a couple of hours at night.
TMI probably!
What do my characters read? Not much.
Camille here, thinking about books. I'm not sure why I don't have heavy readers in my gallery of characters. They confine themselves to literature that's pertinent to their jobs or interests, almost never including fiction or reading for relaxation. For example: • Dr. Gloria Lamerino, retired ...
Love this post, Priscilla.
I'd love to talk Thomism with Brother T -- took 6 years, but I got through a lot of the Summa! Blame those scholarly Arabs for translating Aristotle just in time for the greatest of centuries.
Any your parallels with today are nothing but on the mark!
What Our Characters Read
The short answer is “not a lot”. My series is set in the 13th century. Literacy was not common amongst the vast majority, a situation we seem eager to replicate. Books were handmade, expensive, and often wondrous works of art. Writing was not a skill most needed (another thing we may be rediscov...
Nothing in The Hydrogen Murder connected to the Citizen Jane story -- it was simply the book she was reading when the intruder came in and killed her.
What do my characters read? Not much.
Camille here, thinking about books. I'm not sure why I don't have heavy readers in my gallery of characters. They confine themselves to literature that's pertinent to their jobs or interests, almost never including fiction or reading for relaxation. For example: • Dr. Gloria Lamerino, retired ...
Yes, Staci -- the closest I've come to a tv book deal!
What do my characters read? Not much.
Camille here, thinking about books. I'm not sure why I don't have heavy readers in my gallery of characters. They confine themselves to literature that's pertinent to their jobs or interests, almost never including fiction or reading for relaxation. For example: • Dr. Gloria Lamerino, retired ...
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