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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.
A Literary Exercise–Stiletto Style
/in Uncategorized/by Paula Bensonby Paula Gail Benson Each year in May, Charleston, South Carolina holds its Spoleto Festival–two weeks of music, theater, dance, and arts, taking place in venues throughout the city. This year would be special. The Festival planned to present a production of Porgy and Bess, the quintessential Charleston opera. As part of the celebration for […]
Sparking Your Creativity
/in Uncategorized/by Linda Rodriguezby Linda Rodriguez As an artist and creative person, I can experience times when I reach down for ideas, for creative excitement, for images, and come up temporarily empty. These have usually been times that have combined lots of creative overwork and lots of business work—taxes, promotion, correspondence, contracts, freelance editing, etc. This kind of […]
When the Malbec grapes go missing…there’s mayhem.
/in Uncategorized/by CathyPRelease day for an author is worse than the first day at a new school. Will anyone like it? Review it? Want to take it home for a play date? I threw an extra dose of nervousness into the mix because my novella, Malbec Mayhem, really isn’t a mystery. “Don’t confuse your readers—they expect a […]
How Mad Men in the Not-so-good-ole Days Made Women Mad Too
/in Uncategorized/by Kay KendallBy Kay Kendall The advent of Mad Men on television marked the return of the 60s to the popular consciousness. Before that, the tumultuous decade of the 1960s had a bad rep. It was a divisive time, and people were sick of it. The go-go economy of the 1980s buried “radical chic” in piles of […]
3 Lessons Learned about Fitness from a Recent Novel
/in Uncategorized/by ABPlumBy AB Plum On my January 5th morning walk, I dodged an oncoming car. I banged into a cement barrier, broke 4 toes, sprained my ankle, and bruised a tendon. During the slow recovery—no weight-bearing exercise—I read a lot. The book I was looking forward to the most proved the most disappointing. Why? Maybe I […]