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.
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 […]
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/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 […]
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 […]