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.
Joyful Joyful
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto GangIt’s my turn today and I had nothing, so I asked Kay for suggestions and she mentioned writing about “things you do that help you find joy in everyday life when you live in a great but stressful city.“ I found a scale that identifies stress in your life and my score was very low. […]
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 […]