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Finding my way through a first draft
While I wait for my publisher to announce a launch date for my next novel (Fatal Errors – new series, new characters, new setting…watch this blog for details coming soon!), I’m following standard writing advice and working on the next book. Sort of. Stumbling through that painful first draft is more like it. I’m a…
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What I’m reading: Daisy Darker
My biggest (only?) regret at writing mysteries – and reading/watching so many of them, is that it’s really hard to find one that surprises me. Usually I’ve got the plot (mostly) figured out and the villain nailed long before the big reveal. Not so with Alice Feeney’s Daisy Darker…boy, did this one keep me guessing!…
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Boys of Summer*
My next stop in exploring the theme of family in my novels (namely the broken, dysfunctional, non-traditional ones) is more light-hearted: baseball! And since most pitchers and catchers report this week, spring is just around the corner. All three books in my “Toledo Trilogy” take my MCs out to the ballgame – namely, to see…
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What I’m reading: The Socrates Express
Philosophy and trains and literary travel and did I mention philosophy? Eric Weiner’s travels in The Socrates Express: In Search of Life Lessons from Dead Philosophers not only motivated me to schedule a train trip for our 45th anniversary last September, his philosophical musings brought me back to a lapsed love of reading – and…
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Twisted family ties
Next in my journey through the theme of family (namely the broken, dysfunctional, non-traditional ones) in my novels is adoption. Unwelcome Ties, the third book in my “Toledo Trilogy,” is actually a prequel to the first two, and the first novel I ever finished. It started in NaNoWriMo 2005, was heavily rewritten as my master’s…
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What I’m reading: Scot on the Rocks
Scot on the Rocks, #3 in Catriona McPherson’s A Last Ditch mystery series, tackles some weird family dynamics, too (see my earlier posts on my novels’ theme of family), but with more laughs than I can manage. As I always told my students, writing humor well is tough! McPherson has that knack in spades, and…
CL Pauwels at Large 