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.
Too Hot
/in Uncategorized/by Linda Rodriguezby Linda Rodriguez The temps were 102° today with a heat index of 110°. I spent the day as I have this entire week, working in a local Panera all day, even though I have a nice big office with spacious desk and comfortable desk chair. Our big old house, like a lot of older […]
Business AND Pleasure
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto Gangby Sparkle Abbey We look forward to attending mystery conferences every year. Congregating in the bar with book lovers and fellow writers, sipping margaritas while chatting about what books we’ve recently read and which mystery authors we’d invite to our fictional dinner party. In fact, next weekend we fly to Suffolk, Virginia for one of […]
Literary Sadist: Make Them Suffer
/in How to Write, Uncategorized/by The Stiletto GangBy Kimberly Jayne If there’s one thing I relish about writing, it’s making my characters suffer. Happy people with no challenges don’t inspire page turning. Movies operate on the same premise. When I watch Far from the Madding Crowd, based on Thomas Hardy’s 1874 novel of the same name, the most fascinating thing about it […]
Untitled Post
/in Uncategorized/by DebraClicking Our Heels Some of the members of The Stiletto Gang are having a dinner party. Each can invite three guests to join them for dinner. Who would they be and why? Linda Rodriguez: Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, and Octavia Butler. Woolf for her bright, often viscous wit. Dickens for his flood of storytelling. Butler for […]
Cranking (Toddler) Tunes
/in Uncategorized/by Bethany MainesBy Bethany Maines Many things change after having a baby. And I have to say that one of the things that I’m the most sad to see change is the amount of music I listen to. Baby nap times seem to encompass the whole dang day! I used to have iTunes running almost constantly. Not […]