Clicking Our Heels – Challenges Being a Female Writer Sisters in Crime was founded when Sara Paretsky and other female mystery writers saw a lack of parity between male and female authors. A later advertising slogan claims: “You’ve Come a Long Way Baby.” But let’s look at reality. What has been one of your challenges […]
Welcome to Winona Kent! The Stiletto Gang welcomes Winona Kent as our guest blogger today as she celebrates the upcoming release of her musical mystery Bad Boy. Winona Kent is the current Chair of the Crime Writers of Canada, and is also an active member of Sisters in Crime-Canada West. She lives in New Westminster, […]
This month, on Clicking Our Heels… The Stiletto Gang is reflecting on our favorite foods and what we think they say about us. Donnell Ann Bell – I love food of all kinds. I love Mexican food, chicken enchiladas, chili rellenos. Then the next day I might prepare a spinach salad, with walnut, mushroom, pears, […]
Clicking Our Heels – Blurbing, Reviewing, Writing, and Reading – The Balancing Act Authors are often asked to blurb or review books. At the same time, they often are working against deadlines or on schedules in terms of their own writing, pleasure reading, and lives.. The question becomes how to balance all of these things? […]
Clicking Our Heels – Our New Year’s Resolutions Every year, we make New Year’s Resolutions (or at least most of us do). This year, we are going to share our resolutions with you and have the courage to check back and report to you how we did later in the year. Kathryn Lane – Balancing […]
Clicking Our Heels – Shopping for Christmas, Chanukah, or Kwanza Whether you celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanza, or nothing, it is the shopping season of the year. Some of us are last minute shoppers, some shop all year round. Today, we explore our shopping styles and what, if we could tell someone special what we wanted […]
Clicking Our Heels: Thanksgiving – Our Special Memories Thanksgiving holds special memories for each member of The Stiletto Gang. Some are personal memories of family, some of food, and some … well you be the judge. Donnell Ann Bell – Sweet potatoes. It’s the only time I make them because my husband doesn’t like them. […]
Clicking Our Heels – Physically Moving Outside Our Comfort Zones? In last month’s Clicking Our Heels blog post we discussed our favorite forms of exercise. Our answers were quite varied, but what if we had an opportunity to physically move outside our comfort zones? What if we had the option to skydive, bungee jump, mountain […]