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.
Blogging Tips
/in Uncategorized/by The Stiletto GangTwo weeks ago, Kristopher Zgorski from BOLO Books and I participated in a panel on bloggers for the Sisters In Crime Chesapeake Chapter where we both talked about the many chapters of blogging giving our audience some of the tasks that we do to make our blog what is is today. We had a question […]
GONE GIRL’S Mom and Me
/in Uncategorized/by Kay KendallBy Kay Kendall Author of GONE GIRL Gillian Flynn (left), me on the right Every few years a new book bursts on the scene and throws the crime novel genre into a tizzy. These are big books that sell millions, remain on bestseller lists for months and months, get remade as movies, and establish new […]
The Perfect Soundtrack
/in Uncategorized/by J.M. Phillippeby J.M. Phillippe Living in New York City, headphones are a necessity. They not only help you pass the time on long commutes, providing your own soundtrack protects you from the more…natural soundtrack of life in the city. I like an up beat while walking to work, something that quickens my pace to keep time […]
It Tolls for Thee
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson Calhoun Residence Hall John Donne wrote, “No man is an island.” As writers, we often labor in isolation, occasionally taking our notebooks to coffee shops or book stores to be close to activity. There may be a gentle musical selection playing in the background or perhaps we’ve arrived with our own […]
Who’s Really Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
/in Uncategorized/by Linda Rodriguezby Linda Rodriguez Virginia Woolf has a reputation for difficulty that she doesn’t deserve. It came about because she was a pioneer of stream-of-consciousness technique in the novel to give the reader the sense of being inside a character’s mind. She and James Joyce were contemporaneous with this experiment with Dorothy Richardson slightly ahead of […]