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Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today blogging as Kathy. Well, here we go again. The newly edited trade paperback of the second book my Face Down historical mystery series, featuring Susanna, Lady Appleton as the amateur detective, is now available. The idea is for all ten novels to be in print by the end of…

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Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here, today musing about names. Selecting the right name for each character, of course, is a crucial part of writing fiction. The name has to either fit, or deliberately not fit the character it is assigned to. Simple, right? Not so much, especially if the writer has a backlist. Giving the…

Kate Flora: Over the years, I accumulated quite a library of reference books related to writing, to crime writing in particular, and to crime investigations of all sorts. I never stop acquiring books that someone I regard as credible has suggested. This week I added The Bestseller Code: anatomy of a blockbuster novel. I usually…

Next week at Maine Crime Writers there will be posts by Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson (Monday), Kate Flora (Tuesday), Brenda Buchanan (Thursday) and John Clark (Friday). In the news department, here's what's happening with some of us who blog regularly at Maine Crime Writers: Kathy Lynn Emerson's newly edited trade paperback edition of the third…

Kathy Lynn Emerson here. Brace yourselves. This is another one of my long book-origin stories. As I've mentioned here before, I believe in recycling. If an idea doesn't work for one book or short story, I'm likely to end up using it somewhere else at a later date. More often than not, the first incarnation…