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.
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 […]
Summertime and the reading is . . . WONDERFUL!
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson A significant part of my vacations as I grew up was participating in the library summer reading program. Now, that I work for a state legislature with a session ending in early June, the summer months still mean a time of less activity so I can catch up on all those […]
The Red String of My Mind
/in Uncategorized/by Bethany Mainesby Bethany Maines In the cop shows, whenever the intrepid detective (Watchingthe Detectives, Elvis Costello) is working on the massive conspiracy that killed her mother/lover/those six girls we never met, but who really give our character a reason to act, the case is always shown as pictures (Pictures of You, The Cure) tacked up and […]
Unexpected Consequences of Reading Too Well
/in Uncategorized/by ABPlumBy AB Plum Summertime and the reading was easy. For the three lazy months before I entered first grade, I read and read and read. I finished Little Women for the fourth time. Whizzed through the first three books in the Black Stallion series. Devoured the first two volumes of Anne of Green Gables. Ramona kept […]
Halcyon Days
/in Uncategorized/by Julie MulhernI write a mystery series set in 1974. In 1974, I was seven. Don’t do the math. Please. Readers frequently ask me how I get so much right. There are several answers. The first is that I bought myself more magazines from 1974 than anyone in 2016 should own. The second is that MeTV is […]