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A Writer’s Best Friend
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And for today’s post the plan was to write about how most writers require solitude for their craft and yet, confirming that each book come together differently, I recently...
View ArticleSilly Similes and a Good Laugh.
James Hayman: One of my pet peeves in much of the fiction writing I read or occasionally edit, is the use (misuse is a more accurate term) of sloppy or inappropriate similes. However, bad as they...
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Don’t Forget to Hate Their Guts
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here with a question: Why would you kill someone? No, I mean really. I ask this as I work on a new book (In my first collaboration I’m two-thirds of the way through the first draft...
View ArticleThe Purpose and Future of Fiction
James Hayman: There have been many dire predictions over the past few years that what we do and enjoy as writers and readers is doomed both as entertainment and art. The arguments are simple. Today,...
View ArticleAn Interesting Piece by Margaret Atwood
James Hayman: Yesterday Josh Bodwell, Director of the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance passed along an interesting piece on writing posted on Facebook’s Suspense and Thriller Writers page.by...
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If Hemingway Could Do It …
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, and yes, he did. Hemingway, I mean. And so did Fitzgerald. Edith Wharton. Raymond Chandler and Agatha Christie. They sat down at the keyboard and pounded the keys. I’m...
View ArticleGetting Inside Their Heads
James Hayman: As crime writers we commit murder all the time. Sometimes we do it in almost unimaginably brutal ways. For example, in my first book, The Cutting, I killed three of my victims by having...
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Soup and Suspense? Death and Dessert? Tips for Successful Library Events
Death and desserts Kate Flora: Last year, I jokingly said that it was my goal to visit every library in Maine. I failed, but that just means there are many more libraries to discover and librarians to...
View ArticleUnlicensed to Kill
James Hayman: This blog is another of my rants about gun control. I know I’m probably preaching to the choir but since 90% of America seems to be part of the choir that’s probably inevitable. It’s the...
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Mystery Writing: a Matter of Style
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, fresh off finishing, with my collaboration (and daughter) Emily Westbrooks, a stand-alone crime novel called THE DEAD SAMARITAN. SAMARITAN is still a few months from...
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Maine, the Way Life Is
Okay. We have this post coming about our favorite Maine places. And I confess. I lied. Well, not really. I just talked about the Maine that my family loves, the beautiful reaches of East Penobscot Bay....
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Pondering Aaron Hernandez
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, in Maine, AKA Patriots country. And it hasn’t been a good couple of weeks. I’m talking, of course, about Aaron Hernandez, the former Patriots tight end and future of the...
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Darkness First
James Hayman: My next McCabe thriller, Darkness First, is coming out October 1st as the lead title in Harper Collins’ brand new Witness imprint that plans on featuring mysteries and thrillers...
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Sunday Update: July 28, 2013
Next week at Maine Crime Writers we’ll be featuring posts from Gerry Boyle (Monday), Kaitlyn Dunnett (Tuesday), Vicki Doudera (Wednesday), Lea Wait (Thursday), James Hayman (Friday) and on Saturday,...
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When Life Beats Art to the Punch
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here. And I’m writing this post as I take a break from Port City KILLSHOT, Brandon Blake novel No. 3. I’ve begun the actual writing of this one. That means I’ve done the research,...
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Reflections on Writing, or, What I’ve Learned
Hey all. Gerry Boyle here, introducing a guest blog by my friend Earl Smith, author of THE DAM COMMITTEE, and his new one, now in the pipeline, MORE DAM TROUBLE (which I’ve read). Earl’s work is a...
View ArticleFiring Blind in Iowa
James Hayman: Imagine a blind cop or maybe a private eye whose sense of hearing or maybe smell is so acute he/she can use it to ferret it out a bad guy and make the arrest. It makes an appealing...
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Being a Maine Writer? It’s Tough
Hey all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’ve got a bone to pick with people who say what a perfect place Maine is if you’re a writer. What a crock. I mean, yes, Maine is beautiful. Scenery is to die for. The...
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Sunday Update: September 22, 2013
Next week at Maine Crime Writers we’ll be featuring posts from John Clark (Monday), Kate Flora (Tuesday), Gerry Boyle (Wednesday), Kaitlyn Dunnett, in her Kate Emerson persona (Thursday), Vicki Doudera...
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Your Book is Done. Now Who Sees it?
Hey all, Gerry Boyle here. And I’m reporting in at a key moment in the life of a mystery novel. It’s done. Sort of. Not done in the sense of it being ready for the agent, but done in the sense that...
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