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by Laura Jensen Walker, guest blogger at the Femmes Fatales. Catriona writes: This is a funny old business and most certainly an unfunny old year, but there are still shining moments. Such as - when a brand-new cozy author brings... Continue reading

Posted Sep 8, 2020 at My Weblog

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The falcon has almost landed

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Tomorrow is publication day for The Falcon Always Wings Twice. Which is, to my astonishment, book 27 in my Meg Langslow series. I have to admit: it’s probably not as exciting as having... Continue reading

Posted Aug 3, 2020 at My Weblog

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Memorial Day

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I’m honoring Memorial Day, as I usually do, by thinking about three men: Coleman Hornsby, Stanley Hornsby, and my dad. Luther Coleman Hornsby (September 6, 1892 to November 14, 1918). He was my... Continue reading

Posted May 25, 2020 at My Weblog

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Advice on Facebook

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. These days you take your entertainment where you can find it. Me, I’m always entertained when I see another installment of what I’ve come to call Barb vs. the Facebook advice givers. Full... Continue reading

Posted May 18, 2020 at My Weblog

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Tech talk

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I hate it when the tech that's supposed to make life easier does the opposite. This morning, when I arrived at the library for my usual Monday routine--a mini-writeathon with fellow writer Robin... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2020 at My Weblog

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Beginnings

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. Frank Herbert, Dune. I wasn’t ready for the new year. I’m still not ready. Maybe that’s a... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2020 at My Weblog

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Also rans

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Every year I do a calendar, using the 13 best photos I took all year--12 months plus a cover. And every year I have photos I really like that for one reason or... Continue reading

Posted Dec 2, 2019 at My Weblog

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Who Says Writers Aren’t Thieves?

by Debra H. Goldstein, guest blogger at the Femmes Fatales. I’m a fraud. Although my writings all contain a gem of something I know, my life doesn’t lend itself to the defining elements of cozy mysteries. Instead, I rely on... Continue reading

Posted Oct 7, 2019 at My Weblog

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On endings

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Ivan Held--the president of the Putnam, Dutton, and Berkley imprints of the publisher I still insist was crazy not to celebrate its merger by calling itself Random Penguin--published a moving tribute to Sue... Continue reading

Posted Sep 30, 2019 at My Weblog

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RenFaire

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I went to the Maryland Renaissance Faire this weekend. Not for the first time--I've been there multiple times before, though not in the last few years. I've also been to Renaissance fairs in... Continue reading

Posted Sep 16, 2019 at My Weblog

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Writing avoidance

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. If another woman writer came to my house and looked around, she'd probably say "Aha! Donna can't possibly be on deadline." And she would be wrong. Normally a clean house is the sign... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2019 at My Weblog

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Tern and tern about

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Several years ago I came up with what I thought was a great idea for book in my Meg Langslow series. Meg’s grandfather, Dr. J. Montgomery Blake, the eminent naturalist and environmentalist, has... Continue reading

Posted Aug 19, 2019 at My Weblog

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Vive la lune!

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Thirty years ago this month, millions of people around the world were glued to their television sets watching the first moon landing. I wasn't one of them. I probably would have been if... Continue reading

Posted Jul 22, 2019 at My Weblog

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Names

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I know writers who shudder at the idea of auctioning off a character name. For those of you who just said “huh?”—most mystery conventions include auctions to support a nonprofit cause, usually either... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2019 at My Weblog

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Cooking Up an Idea

by Leslie Budewitz, Femmes Fatales special guest. The brain is a strange thing. (I can hear Mr. Right, in another part of the house, saying, with a roll of his eyes, “Some brains are stranger than others.” Hmm. Takes one... Continue reading

Posted Jun 10, 2019 at My Weblog

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Garden guilt

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Sometime this week I'm going to go out and apologize to my garden. I spent many weeks during the late winter writing furiously, followed by many weeks of spring traveling--to Vancouver by train... Continue reading

Posted May 20, 2019 at My Weblog

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My pre-travel rituals: packing and disasters

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I've already started packing for Malice Domestic. Not quite halfway packed, but I still have a couple of days. If I were talking to my friend Barb Goffman, I would tell her that... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2019 at My Weblog

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Back from Canada

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I hereby issue a blanket apology to anyone who was expecting to hear from me in the last several weeks. It wasn't just that I went to Left Coast Crime--I did, and had... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2019 at My Weblog

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Grateful, dammit

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. I know a couple of people who are doing the whole gratitude thing. Taking a few moments at the beginning or end of the day to think of three things they're grateful for.... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2019 at My Weblog

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Revisiting history

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. As I said recently in another context, I never got that much into the Civil War. Yorktown, where I grew up, remained in Union hands for most of the war, and in those... Continue reading

Posted Feb 18, 2019 at My Weblog

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My FBI experience

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. My local chapter of Sisters in Crime paid a visit to the FBI on Friday. No, we're not being investigated, interrogated, indicted, or anything else dire. We were visiting The FBI Experience, the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2019 at My Weblog

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Woodpecker gotta peck wood

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. In August 2002 I moved into my house after years of apartment dwelling. There were many wonderful things about being in a house. A house with a yard. I could grow plants! I... Continue reading

Posted Jan 28, 2019 at My Weblog

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Let it snow!

by Donna Andrews of the Femmes Fatales. Yes, I'm late posting this blog. No excuse, except that I've been so focused on the weather that it only just dawned on me that today was Monday. Full confession here: I am... Continue reading

Posted Jan 14, 2019 at My Weblog

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