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Superstorm Sandy–One Year Later
Today is the first anniversary of the day Superstorm Sandy hit the New York metropolitan area. My guess would be that nearly everyone who visits the Women of Mystery has at least one friend or family...
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Halloween…Candy Corn
Okay, if like me you wait until the very last minute to buy your Halloween Candy. (I can’t nibble on what’s not in the house!) You may be surprised to find that there is an entire list of treats that...
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Thank you to all our selfless vets
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Nick of Time by Cathi Stoler
If I was allowed only one word to describe Cathi Stoler’s just released novella, Nick of Time, that word would be slick. Nick Donohue is the kind of guy my mother would have called debonair. He knows...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
The Women of Mystery are very grateful for the support we have received from our many readers and followers. Whether or not you celebrate Thanksgiving, please know that we are thankful for the joy you...
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Lucky, lucky, lucky
I am on a true winning streak. First I received an email from our own Laura K. Curtis announcing the fact that I won “The Red Set” in her month long giveaway celebrating the release of her fabulous...
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The Wrong Girl Tuesday Twosome
Welcome to Twofer Tuesday! In a recent post I talked about my winning streak as I followed other authors from blogs to Goodreads to Facebook and entered giveaways celebrating wonderful new books. You...
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Planning To Write
Over in the book section of the Huffington Post, M. Shannon Hernandez knows that “there are plenty of ways that you can get yourself prepared for the New Year, as a writer, author, and/or blogger.” She...
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About That Book Contract…
So there have been a lot of rumors floating around the writing community as to how a book contract with a major New York publishing house comes to be. Just yesterday, I stopped by to visit author Judy...
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Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida
The week of January 13th through 17th is Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida. And since the Women of Mystery are writers and avid readers, it stands to reason that we love to promote literacy. As it...
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MTM: Kennedy Space Center
Okay, so first let me tell you that the Fifth Grade Gifted Program of Diplomat Elementary School brought home the Second Prize in the Celebrate Literacy, Florida competition. The prize is $500 to spend...
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Tuesday Twosome: Kyle J. Knapp poetry
Last June a talented young poet named Kyle J. Knapp died in a house fire. His uncle, Beat to a Pulp publisher, David Cranmer had published Kyle’s fist volume of poems Pluvial Gardens about a year...
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FBF Shirley Jackson
Patti Abbot has long been the gatekeeper of the Forgotten Book Friday blogs, which have often expanded to cover movies, television shows/episodes, short stories and so on. Bloggers from all over the...
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BLOOM and DOOM coming soon to a bookstore near you
Writing as Beverly Allen, Barbara Early has penned a fabulous cozy mystery called Bloom and Doom which will be released by Berkley on April 1, 2014. (No April Fool’s Day jokes, please. Just buy the...
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The MWA Helen McCloy Scholarship
If you wander around the Mystery Writers of America website, you will come across a page entitled The Helen McCloy Scholarship. Intriguing, right? So you may ask yourself, who is Helen McCloy? And I...
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Let’s Fight Breast Cancer Together
From time to time I have talked about the research foundation coordinated by Doctor Susan Love and her team of medical professionals. Called Army of Women, the members sign up for geographically...
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MTM: Family Vacation, Ormand Beach, Florida
I was fortunate enough to recently spend some time roaming around Florida with my kids and their families. Having all seven grandkids together guarantees I will have the best time—and so we did. One...
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MTM: Ireland! America! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
A few days ago my eleven-year-old grandson asked me what I am besides Irish. I said, “I’m nothing besides Irish.” He said, “No. I mean what other countries did your family come from besides Ireland.” I...
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Our friend Deb Lacy who runs the fabulous Mystery Playground Blog spent this past weekend in Monterey, California at Left Coast Crime, the west coast crime fiction convention. Deb posted daily bringing...
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