(This seemed like an appropriate time to re-run this post, during the season of shoplifters.) by K.B. Owen ~ As “Black Friday” rapidly approaches, the official opening of the holiday shopping season…
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We’re celebrating Autumn with two great autumn contests for you! First, misterio press’s Fall ’21 Holidays Contest. Prizes are a lovely autumn bounty mouse pad and matching sandstone coaster. Plus 5 signed…
by Kassandra Lamb ~ We fiction writers invent all kinds of things—make-believe settings, fictitious events, imaginary friends (er, I mean, characters). In other words, we make stuff up. But we are often…
(NOTE: Our contest winner was Pernette W. Congrats, Pernette!!) By Kassandra Lamb (on behalf of the group) ~ One of the joys and aggravations of being indie authors is the process of…
by Kassandra Lamb and K.B. Owen ~ Since Kathy (K.B.) is releasing her next audio book, Unseemly Honeymoon, this week, I figured it was a good time to do an encore of…
by K.B. Owen …or, more specifically, sea-bathing in 1880s Newport, where my latest book, THE SECRET OF THE FORTY STEPS, is set, during the summer of 1887. You may have heard of…
Here’s some short and sweet holiday fun from K.B. Owen’s archives—Merry Christmas, Sherlock Holmes style. Happy Holidays! As a mystery lover, Christmas reminds me of one of my favorite Sherlock Holmes stories,…
by K.B. Owen Happy mid- summer, everyone! With everyone hitting the pool/beach, it seemed a good time to talk about the real signs of drowning (they may not be what you think).…
by K.B. Owen All kinds of decisions (and a hundred indecisions, to paraphrase T.S. Eliot) go into the plotting of a mystery. For example, as I was deciding upon the plot points…
by K.B. Owen With Valentine’s Day still on our minds, we thought you might enjoy this post about an exploding chocolate bar. The year was 1943, and those crafty Nazis had come…