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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.
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 […]
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 […]