Social Media self-destruction  I read with interest Shelley's post about the baffling and frustrating world of marketing. No author I know becomes a writer because they love the marketing. Most of us hate it - perhaps not all of it but the relentless push to keep your book or your name visible. I love the human encounters. The book club talks and public presentations, the chance meetings with readers, even the
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Older, Wiser. . .and Solving Crimes Have you noticed a quiet revolution happening on your bookshelves and television screen? I’m talking about the rise and rise of the older woman amateur sleuth.  Twenty years ago, I would have been pressed to name more than Miss Marple as an example, but now we have Elizabeth and Joyce from the Thursday Murder Club, […]
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It’s Always About the Money – Because That’s Fun The third season of The White Lotus put a spin on the money-worries-as-a-motive-for-murder trope when series creator Mike White had the financially troubled Duke alumni dad contemplate killing his family. While commerce related crime is often a means for a character to get money or keep money, that wasn’t the wealthy patriarch’s motive. Knowing the […]
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Jay Gatsby, Confidence Man I confess that I wasn’t a fan of The Great Gatsby the first time I read it, which, surprisingly for many, wasn’t in school. I grew up in Canada, where American novels aren’t often taught, and my English class at university started with Chaucer and ended somewhere around Romanticism. When I moved to the US, […]
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