Tariffied: Impacts on Publishing, Writing, & Creativity Hello, Type M Readers & Writers:Shelley here reporting from an island in the Philippine Sea and feeling very weirded-out by everything going on over there on the mainland. Guam is a far-away outpost of the USA. My husband works for the Department of the Navy. We've been on island since January, trying to get our bearings. It would have been difficult in normal circumstances. Now I don't
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FRIDAY’S FORGOTTEN BOOKS #846: A COYOTE’S IN THE HOUSE By Elmore Leonard I’ve read a lot of Elmore Leonard’s crime fiction and Westerns, but I did not know he had written a children’s book. Just by blind luck, I stumbled over this book in a local thrift store. It had been misspelled with the adult hardcovers next to the Children’s Books section. Elmore Leonard wrote A Coyote’s […]
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Full Programme Announced for Final CrimeFest The full programme for the final CrimeFest in Bristol, which takes place 15 – 18 May at Bristol’s Mercure Grand Hotel has been announced. 2025’s featured guest is icon of the genre, Lee Child, who will be in conversation with his brother and co-writer of the Reacher series, Andrew Child. One of the UK’s leading […]
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FRIDAYREADS & CRIMESPREE GIVEAWAY: First Wife’s Shadow by Adele Parks HIS FIRST WIFE DIED. NOW THERE'S A VACANCY…
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How Grady Hendrix Came to Love Horror From the introduction to the essay: Grady Hendrix began his career as a horror novelist leaning into parody and humor, but over the years, while he has found ways to continue to incorporate humor, his novels have gotten progressively more serious and darker. Hendrix’s stories feature a strong, often nostalgic sense of place and even […]
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