Who are the Stiletto Gang?
The Stiletto Gang is a group blog full of traditional and indie published romance and mystery authors talking about writing, life, and how hard it is to find a new way to kill someone. Each day of the week features a new author. We keep our monthly blogging schedule posted in the sidebar. and we invite you to follow us on Facebook and/or sign up for daily blog alerts.
Dancing in My Dreams
/in Uncategorized/by DebraDancing in My Dreams by Debra H. Goldstein When I was in college, I finally decided to make my father happy. He believed the only safe careers for women were nursing and teaching. Because he acknowledged I wasn’t suited to be a nurse, he pushed for teaching. I didn’t agree. That is, until I discovered […]
Clicking Our Heels – As Writers, What’s Difficult or Easy to Address
/in Uncategorized/by DebraClicking Our Heels – As Writers, What’s Difficult or Easy to Address Jennae Phillippe – Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about representation in fiction; while I want to be inclusive in my writing, I am terrified of being insulting or stereotyping, and yet I want to write about people other than cisgendered straight white […]
The Long and Short of It
/in Uncategorized/by Bethany Mainesby Bethany Maines I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer when it was first on television. It was the first time I’d watched a show that combined the episodic weekly tale with a long-form, season long story arc. Whether or not you enjoy fantasy and teenagers killing things, the inclusion of a “big bad” (Buffy slang […]
Relatively Speaking
/in Uncategorized/by J.M. Phillippeby J.M. Phillippe I have been thinking a lot about relative experience. “Relatively speaking” is a phrase we toss around casually, an improvised rescaling of any given comparison. Hidden in the phrase is an acknowledgement that the scale of comparison has been significantly reduced to include a limited range of possible experiences or perceptions of […]
The Stiletto Connection (with Sisters in Crime)
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson Diane Vallere What do stilettos have in common with Sisters in Crime (SinC)? They are both significant factors in current national SinC President Diane Vallere’s writing life. For example, her first manuscript, Just Kidding, won the RWA Get Your Stiletto in the Door contest, then became Designer Dirty Laundry, the first […]