Monthly Archives: December 2011

Drumroll Please! The Three Winners Are!

The Great Mystery We Write Blog Tour has gone full circle: 15 mystery novelists visited each other’s blogs during a span of 14 days, for a total of 210 different posts. The intrepid travelers were: Beth Anderson—November 25 Anne K. … Continue reading

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Pat Browning … on Sermons and Soda Water

My final guest blogger — on Day 14 of The Mystery We Write Blog Tour — is Pat Browning, the Tour’s organizer and “benign dictator.” Pat was born and raised in Oklahoma. A longtime resident of California’s San Joaquin Valley … Continue reading

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John M. Daniel … on Why He Wants to Entertain You

John M. Daniel, my guest blogger on Day 13 of The Murder We Write Blog Tour, was born in Minnesota, raised in Texas, and educated in Massachusetts and California. He was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Creative Writing at Stanford … Continue reading

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Alice Duncan … on Loving Mysteries

Award-winning author Alice Duncan is my guest blogger on Day 12 of The Mystery We Write Blog Tour. Alice lives with a herd of wild dachshunds (enriched from time to time with fosterees from New Mexico Dachshund Rescue) in Roswell, … Continue reading

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W.S. Gager … on Why Mystery Fiction Stands the Test of Time

Wendy (W.S.) Gager — my intrepid guest blogger on Day 11 of the Murder We Write blog tour — has lived in Michigan for most of her life, except when she was interviewing race car drivers or professional woman’s golfers. … Continue reading

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M.M. Gornell … on Why “Mystery” Means “Murder Mystery”

Madeline (M.M.) Gornell is my guest blogger on Day 10 of The Murder We Write blog tour. M.M. has three published mystery novels — PSWA awarding winning Uncle Si’s Secret (2008), Death of a Perfect Man (2009), and her latest … Continue reading

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Timothy Hallinan … on The Joy of Mystery Redux

Timothy Hallinan, my ninth guest blogger on The Mystery We Write Blog Tour, is giving us our second look this week at the joy of mystery fiction. Tim is eminently qualified to opine on the subject. He is the Edgar- … Continue reading

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Jackie King … on Why Mystery Readers Need Never be Bored

We’re halfway through the Murder We Write Blog Tour. Today — Day Eight — I’m delighted to welcome Jackie King as my guest blogger. Jackie loves books, words, and writing tall tales. She especially enjoys murdering the people she dislikes … Continue reading

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Jean Henry Mead … on Why I Write

My guest blogger on Day Seven of The Murder We Write Blog Tour is Jean Henry Mead, the author of 15 books, half of them novels. She’s also an award-winning photojournalist and children’s author of the Hamilton Kids’ series: Mystery … Continue reading

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