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You Know You Love Books When . . .

By Elaine Viets Yep, I'm a bookworm. Always have been. As a kid, I read ten books a week. I read so many books that my mother was worried I wasn't "normal." She made a deal with me: if I'd... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2019 at My Weblog

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Are You Turning Into Your Parents?

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. "What's the fastest way to get to the highway from here?" my husband asked me. "The most direct way is US 1 to Broward Boulevard, but this time of day, I like to... Continue reading

Posted May 1, 2019 at My Weblog

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When Did You Know There Was No Easter Bunny?

By Elaine Viets My husband Don, who's more savvy than I am, figured out the Easter bunny at age five or six. "I just knew it wasn't real," he told me. I was a little slower. Actually, I was a... Continue reading

Posted Apr 17, 2019 at My Weblog

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Let's Hear It for Bunny Ears

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. Which part of the chocolate Easter bunny do you eat first? I like the ears – especially the dark chocolate bunny ears. Other people prefer starting with the bunny tails, but I like... Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2019 at My Weblog

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Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 17, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 14, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 14, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 14, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 14, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

Hi, Im at SleuthFest in Boca Raton through Monday, March 18. Ill answer your email when I return. Best wishes, Elaine

Commented Mar 14, 2019 on I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring at My Weblog

I'm Not Springing Forward This Spring

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. About the only ones happy with daylight-saving time in our household are our two cats, Harry and Mystery. They get fed an hour earlier. Don and I are now five days into the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 13, 2019 at My Weblog

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Plucked Eyes and Rice Pudding: My Favorite Children's Books

By Elaine Viets Here's a charming custom that I hope catches on: A book shower for a grandma to be. We were asked to give a new grandma our favorite children's book, so she would have her own library to... Continue reading

Posted Feb 28, 2019 at My Weblog

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The Long and Short of It

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. Is it just me, or do mysteries seem to be getting longer? When I started writing mysteries, most contracts called for novels between 70,000 and 90,000 words. That's still standard contract language, and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2019 at My Weblog

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What Do You Binge Watch?

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. There's something about winter that calls for binge watching. On these long dark nights, I curl up by the TV with a bowl of hot popcorn and watch one show after another. Here... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2019 at My Weblog

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Why Writing Isn't a Solitary Process

I really enjoyed the first novel Debra Goldstein's new cozy series, "One Taste Too Many." Today's blog is inspirational and informative. Deb, who has been nominated for an Anthony and an Agatha Award, had not one but TWO publishers fold... Continue reading

Posted Jan 8, 2019 at My Weblog

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My New Year's Resolution

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. For 2019, I'm not going to try to lose weight. I'm through with the same old boring New Year's resolutions. But I do have one resolution – an important one. I resolve to... Continue reading

Posted Dec 26, 2018 at My Weblog

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I Cannot Tell a Lie

Our guest today is Victoria Thompson, author of the bestselling Gaslight Mystery Series. Her new book, City of Secrets, is the second in her new Counterfeit Lady Series. The first book in that series, City of Lies, is now out... Continue reading

Posted Dec 13, 2018 at My Weblog

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Words Gone Wild

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. Even the biggest authors run afowl (or is it afoul? There's never a copy editor around when you need one.) with our complicated language. Here's an error I recently saw in a book... Continue reading

Posted Nov 28, 2018 at My Weblog

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How to Survive Thanksgiving

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. Green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with little marshmallows, creamy mashed potatoes and gravy, four kinds of pie, and Aunt Mildred's cranberry-orange surprise. All these delights are waiting for us next Thursday, along with... Continue reading

Posted Nov 14, 2018 at My Weblog

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Mistress of the Micky Finn

By Elaine Viets of the Femmes Fatales. "Mistress of the Mickey Finn" is the title of my new short story in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's November/December issue. It's also a warning to young men. We women are warned to be... Continue reading

Posted Oct 31, 2018 at My Weblog

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By Joanna Campbell Slan I have always been fascinated by small things, and after my mother took us to see Colleen Moore’s Fairy Castle in the Museum of Science and Industry, I was hooked. Since I grew up poor, I... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2018 at My Weblog

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The Salem Witches: Have We Got It Backwards?

By Elaine Viets One of my favorite reads this time of year is Katherine Howe's The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Howe's ancestors, Elizabeth Howe and Elizabeth, Proctor, were two of the accused witches in Salem, Massachusetts. Historians are still... Continue reading

Posted Oct 17, 2018 at My Weblog

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Good Sense: Penny Candy

By Elaine Viets My grandparents owned what St. Louisans called a "confectionary" - basically an early convenience store. It was the kind of place where neighbors could dash in and buy something without making a trip to the supermarket: a... Continue reading

Posted Oct 3, 2018 at My Weblog

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Help! A Weather Event Is Coming

By Elaine Viets. "Weather event." The first time I heard this phrase was last year during Hurricane Irma. The massive storm was bearing down on South Florida. It was a menacing Category 5. The governor ordered a mass evacuation. Don... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2018 at My Weblog

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Aposiopesis: What Is It and Why Would You Want One

Today, the Femmes Fatales welcome author Neil Plakcy. Neil has written or edited over three dozen novels and short stories in mystery, romance and erotica. To research the Angus Green FBI thrillers, including The Next One Will Kill You, Nobody... Continue reading

Posted Sep 5, 2018 at My Weblog

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